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Oprah WinfreyThe story of a wonderful woman ……

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Biography • Oprah winfrey (named after a character in the

bible )was born on January 29 ,1954 .in a little town in Mississippi named Kosciusko. She was born to teenage parents vernita lee and Vernon winfrey they were unable to stabilize there relationship and separated when oprah was two years old. she then moved in with her grand mother in a poor neighborhood .although oprah thrived under her grandmothers guidance ,and she was taught how to read when she had turned three .when winfrey was a child it was told that the interest of broadcasting was always there .she would sit and interview her dolls all day .at he community church she was asked to lecture in front of all of her community. she had such a passion for it and she did it very well .things for oprah changed drastically when oprah turned 6 and she moved to Milwaukee with her mother. Gone was the loving guidence that her grandmother provided for her .

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Continuing biography.. • over the next several years , Winfrey was sexually assaulted

repitidly by male relatives . Oprah then rebelled against her mother. as a self proclaimed child she began to get into drugs .at the age of 14 years old oprah gave birth to a son . Sadly, a premature baby that died shortly after birth . Finally in desperation oprah ran away with her father in Nashville. Opah needed tough love and that’s exactly what she got with her father . Oprah excelled in school got great grades and joined the speech club .winfrey say that her father had some concerns about making the best of her life .when oprah was still in high school she was hired as a radio caster by WVOL in Nashville .she was seventeen. At the age of nineteen oprah was hired to be news reporter .soon she moved to Baltimore to be a news anchor . Winfrey was not successful as a reporter, largely because her natural empathy prevented her from asking tough questions of people in cris.

she soon was signed of to a morning talk show .within a year she had transformed the show into the most watched talk show in America .as oprah career keeps pushing through with her own talk show .she has made history helping people all over the world in need .she has also become the worlds first black millionaire .her salary is around 345millon dollars .oprah is a caring ,loving ,sharing and life saving human being ,she is very respected in a lot of places .

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