Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely and died in infancy. Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Tennessee and landed a job in radio while still in high school. By 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Winfrey’s often emotional, extemporaneous delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
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- https://youtu.be/G1mPB5SJaEU
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey
- https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/oprah-winfrey
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