Oprah Gail Winfrey (\/\u02c8o\u028apr\u0259\/; born Orpah Gail Winfrey;[a] January 29, 1954), known<\/p>\n
mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor.<\/p>\n
She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011.<\/p>\n
[3][4] Dubbed the \u00abQueen of All Media\u00bb,[5] she was the richest African-American of the 20th century[6][7]<\/p>\n
and was once the world\u2019s only black billionaire.[8] By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world.[9][10]<\/p>\n
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested<\/p>\n
during her childhood and early teenage years and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely and died in infancy.Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon Winfrey,<\/p>\n
a barber in Nashville, Tennessee, and landed a job in radio while still in high school.[4] By 19, she was a co-anchor for the local evening news.<\/p>\n
Winfrey\u2019s often emotional, extemporaneous delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena,<\/p>\n
and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[12] she launched her own production company\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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