Oprah Gail Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey,everyone knows that Oprah is a great TV presenter and North American businesswoman, that she has won many awards for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and that she is considered the richest woman in the entertainment business and the first black be included in the list of billionaires. But not everyone knows the story of the life of this great woman.

Oprah Winfrey was born in Mississippi in the United States, in a Baptist family. She was baptized with the name of Orpah in honor of a Moabite pictured in the book of Ruth in the Bible. As the neighbors used to replace the "r" by "p" in its name, both in writing as to speak as a child his name was changed to Oprah

Oprah was the daughter of a couple separated adolescents. Her mother, Vernita Lee Gail, was mistress of the house, his father's name was Vernon Winfrey and the Armed Forces when she was born. Oprah's father did not want to be a father at the time and did not have a fixed relationship with her ​​mother, so with the news of the pregnancy happened many fights between the couple and they separated. However, Oprah's father registered her, not even living with, but visited occasionally.

As Oprah's mother was alone she had to travel to the the United States Northern to work, then, Oprah spent the first six years of his life away from his mother and living in a place, in a very poor rural area, with the maternal grandmother Hattie Gail Mae. She rarely saw his father and his mother phoned only sometimes. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to church where she taught her to read and sing Bible verses. Even so, his grandmother used to beat her a lot when she sang a verse wrong or misbehaved, although Oprah liked to do that and that's when she discovered he liked to deal with an audience.

When Oprah was six years old his mother returned and took her to live with her in a neighborhood in the city of Milwaukee in Wisconsin, where surely, was treated less rigorously because his mother was busy most of the time. However, as his mother was busy, Oprah began to be molested by her uncle and his cousins ​​teens, when he was nine years old. They were relatives of his mother, and beat the girl, and raped her frequently a major trauma that Oprah, threatened, nothing could report to parents.

After all, Oprah has always been dedicated to the study and at thirteen years old she won a scholarship at Nicolet High School, one of the best public schools in Wisconsin. After finishing school, Oprah ran away from home because of sexual abuse and had refuge in the house of a friend whose family accepted it gladly.
At fourteen years old Oprah met her first boyfriend and fell madly in love with him. Time passed and Oprah despaired when she discovered she was pregnant and was depressed when her boyfriend left her.
Her parents already knew she was at a friend's house and she reported by telephone to her mother why she had left the house and that she was pregnant and that her boyfriend had abandoned her. His parents were shocked, her mother asked her to come back but she said he was fine and his relatives were arrested.

During pregnancy, Oprah did not took care and not used to go to the doctor besides living sad and depressed. Oprah to nine months went into labor and had a normal birth boy in a lot of pain as well as the boy was born a problem with their organs and weight. A few hours after his son died and Oprah never wanted kids.

After all, his mother consoled her and Oprah went to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. She realized that her family was the most distanced from her and they treated coldly and Oprah concluded that it was because of his early pregnancy. Oprah went back to school to finish high school, and became more and more dedicated and popular among the classmates eventually being voted once as the "The coolest girl in school."

After finishing school, Oprah won acompetition of locution, which opened the doors of studies at the University of Tennessee for her, a historically black university, where she studied Communication Television. With 17 years Oprah gained a Beauty contest for having a beauty that always attracted attention. At that time, retraced her life, seriously dated any boys and at weekends came out with some flirt, getting to sleep away from home, and the father did not like this behavior.

Oprah's talent attracted the looks of the local radio WVOL, which hired her to transmit news on call. Oprah worked up on that radio her first two years in college.The choice of Oprah in the media did not surprise his family, including his grandmother who always encouraged and recognized her this talent. Later, Oprah thanked his grandmother for the incentive.

In 1976 , already formed in Communication and Performing Arts , he moved to Baltimore and attended the WJZ - TV News , which co-organized his talk show . The ease of communicating with the public caught the attention of another station in Chicago that offered a morning show with only 30 minutes. The good performance captured the audience and the duration of the program doubled .

Only in 1985 , her talk show would receive the name of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and would be immortalized as the talk show with the largest audience in U.S. history . The program lasted for 25 years and in May 25, 2011 , had its last performance .
Oprah currently resides in " The Promised Land " , located in Montecito in Santa Barbara County , California, also owns a house in Lavallette New Jersey , an apartment in Chicago, an estate on Fisher Island in Miami , a mansion in Douglasville Georgia , a winter home in Telluride Colorado, a summer house on the island Maui in Hawaii and a residence in Antigua .
After boyfriends and boyfriends, Oprah began dating businessman Stedman Graham in 1986 . They planned an official wedding should take place in November 1992 , but the ceremony never took place due to lack of time for other work . Even today they are together, and live well as lovers . Oprah has publicly stated he never wanted children , but said the South African students of the " Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls " occupy the place that would be dedicated to the children who did not have.