Ask any woman who her favourite woman is, and most of them are going
to say Oprah Winfrey. This world-renowned talk show host has struck a
chord with women, sometimes even men. Oprah has used her power to bring
about major changes for women and humanity, in general. But the lady did
have a dark past. There are things about her which many are not aware
of, or have forgotten. It’s time we raked up the past!
1. Oprah was born out of Wedlock . Her parents never married.
3. Her father was a barber.
4. Oprah was brought up by her maternal grandparents Hattie Mae and Earless Lee in Mississippi, up to the age for 6.
5. Her parents had named her ‘Orpah’, but it was misspelled on her birth certificate, and it somehow stuck.
6. Two days after kindergarten, she wrote to her teacher
saying: “I don’t think I belong here ’cause I know a lot of big words.”
The teacher agreed and she skipped to first grade.
7. When she was 14, she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy. He died shortly after birth.
8. She was sent to a juvenile hall for wayward girls because
she was out of control, but she was turned away because there weren’t
enough beds.
9. In order to get her mother to buy her a more fashionable
pair of glasses, Oprah once faked a robbery in her Milwaukee home,
overturning furniture and breaking her glasses.
10. At some point in her teens, she experimented with drugs including cocaine.
11. Between ages 9 and 14 she was sexually abused by a distant relative.
12. Her impressive resume also boasts a line as College
professor. She taught the dynamics of leadership at Northwestern
University in 1999 and 2000.
13. She won several beauty pageants including Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville, and Miss Black Tennessee.
14. In 1998, she shed several pounds down to a size 8 to pose for photographer Annie Liebovitz for a Vogue magazine shoot.
15. Oprah started dating Stedman Graham in 1986. They were
engaged to be married in November 1992, but the wedding ceremony never
took place.
16. While working in Baltimore, Oprah had a heated affair
with a married man that lasted four years while. She’s never revealed
his name.
17. Every week, her email box gets flooded by 12,000 e-mails from fans all over the world.
18. There is a rumour that Oprah has gay relationship with
her best friend, Gayle King. It has been strongly and tearfully refuted
by Oprah.
SOURCE: http://www.rookiestew.com
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