A baby girl "Oprah" was born to an unwed teenage mother in 1954. Oprah was left at her grandmother's house. She lived there for some years. Her mother used to work in another town as a housemaid. Between the ages 9 and 14, Oprah was raped countless times by her cousins, uncles and a family friend. She gave birth to a child at 14 years old and the child died.
She became a thief and started stealing money from people. She became a drug addict. she consumed dangerous drugs like heroin and cocaine. She was caught by the police and sent to jail. After 6 months, she came back from jail. She was a spoiled teenager. She spoiled in all ways. All people disliked, hated and disrespected her.
she came to know the address of her barber father, went to him and started living with her father in Tennessee, a state in the USA. There, her life started changing. A new chapter opened to her in Tennessee. The first time, she understood the importance of education. She studied honors seriously and she became the most popular student at East Nashville High School. She won several awards in open speech competition. Later, she studied communication from Tennessee State University.
At the age of 19, her life took another turn. She got a job at a local Radio Station as a co-anchor for the local evening news. In 1984, she started to host ‘AM Chicago’, an early morning talk show. Soon it became the most-watched show in America.
Later, The show was renamed as ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. This show became the most popular show in television history with more than 50 million American viewers and spanned across 144 countries worldwide. She has also proved herself as the most influential leader through ‘Change Your Life TV’ with 22 million female viewers.
In her shows, she interviewed many topmost celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Nelson Mandela, Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallon, Rhonda Byrne, Celine Dion, Lady Gaga and many more. In the interviews, her questions were very sharp, mind-blowing and sometimes harsh.
Some of her interviews were shown in movie theatres with houseful collections.
In 2009, Barak Obama participated in the Presidential election. Oprah supported Obama and gave speeches, supporting him. And then, he became the president of America. Americans strongly believe Oprah is the main reason behind Obama's success in the presidential election.
Oprah expanded her business in many countries. She became the Chairwoman, CEO, and CCO of her own company "Oprah Winfrey Network". she is the co-founder of Oxygen Media and founder of Oprah Magazine. Oprah donated $10 million after Hurricane Katrina. And she donated very big amounts of money for poor people.
She is the first African American Billionaire. Now she has 4.02 Billon dollars. She has 6 luxurious, rich and spacious houses in America. She drives the most expensive cars in the USA.
She won more than 100 awards worldwide. Many times, she was said "the most powerful woman of America".
Oprah's childhood and teenage were horrible and bitter. But she changed her life later in a miraculous way. The life of Oprah Winfrey is the best example of "How a person can change his life".
If you fail 1000 times, there are one billion opportunities waiting for you. This is a friendly universe. Always strongly believe you are going to win your dreams and the universe will make you win your dreams.
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