Thursday 12 December 2013

'If I had kids, they would hate me': Oprah Winfrey

Feeling the love: Honoree Oprah Winfrey attends the 22nd annual THR Women in Entertainment breakfast



Oprah is one of the richest woman in the world, with a net worth totallying $2.9 billion. Her empire includes the TV network OWN, two Oprah magazines (O and The Oprah Magazine) and the production company Harpo, just to name a few and she has famously never married or had children, although has been in a relationship with businessman Stedman Graham since 1986.
But Oprah Winfrey has no regrets, commentating it would have been difficult making time for a family amid her busy career.
'If I had kids, my kids would hate me,' she tells The Hollywood Reporter in its new issue. 'They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.'
No regrets: Oprah Winfrey says any kids would have 'hated her' in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter and is their cover star
Oprah, who grew up in poverty in rural Mississipi, says her attitude about children is in stark contrast to her best friend Gayle King who is a mother of two.
'Gayle [now a mother of two] was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade Home Ec class, was writing down her name and the names of her children,' she says. 'While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King.'
Celebrating her Sherry Lansing Leadership Award with a new interview, the 59-year-old businesswoman and talk-show host candidly discusses the struggles launching her TV network OWN, her financial success, and reports she suffered a nervous breakdown last year. 
'I never had a nervous breakdown,' she says, explaining how the original report took comments she made about her workload out of context. 'I thought that was such sensational exploitation.'
Fame and success has its price, and Oprah reveals that being worth billions can cause strain among her family and friends.
'When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighbourhood and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank,' she says, 'And you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
She adds: 'I got to the point where nobody ever asked me for anything less than $5,000. I felt pressured for a long time to say yes, because I thought, "I can't lie and say I don't have it.
'My salary is printed in the paper,"' I've bought more houses and cars than I can even tell you."
Oprah is well known for her philanthropic efforts, having opened a successful school for girls in South Africa, donating around $100 million to the institution.
OWN has since turned its fortunes around after initial struggles in the ratings, and Oprah has received a nomination for a SAG Award for her work in The Butler. 
Oprah is a highly successful and determined woman,the kind of person that will exceed even her own expectations so her  reasons for not having kids comes a surprise.What do you think about her stand on not having kids?

8 comments:

  1. She is just afraid she may not succeed as a mother but that's rubbish if u ask me

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  2. she sounds selfish...

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  3. She knows herself well.

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  4. Good for her atleast she has touched the lives of kids not her own

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  5. At least she had the courage to stand by her decision not to have kids, because she knew it wasn't right for her. And no she's not selfish, she's smart and sensible. Many women have children because it's "what you do" and dont give them love and care and responsibility that comes with having

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  6. I dont think her kids would have turned out OK. most of these celebrities have weired kids. Guess as a result of absentee parents or toomuch attention from the media.

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  7. her hands are ugly

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  8. Don't like her.......somethingg abt her isn't rite

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