“OPRAH WINFREY”

 

“OPRAH WINFREY” 

Oprah Winfrey is a multitalented woman. She is also known as World’s Richest and Self Made woman. She proclaimed herself the most powerful woman in the world. She is the success factory by herself. She knew as a Television host, Television Network Owner, Actor, Movie Producer She is the huge Star of the Television Industry. Oprah has an incredibly remarkable diverse career.

Orpah Gail Winfrey is known as Oprah Gail Winfrey. She was born on January 29, 1954, in Mississippi. Her star sign is Aquarius. She was born in Poverty in Mississippi. Oprah upraised as Baptist but lately Oprah affirmed that she is Christian.

She attended Lincoln High School in Milwaukee, but after her early success she was transferred to the affluent suburban Nicolet High School however she was facing stricken poverty and disappointments so her mother sends her to Nashville and there she completed her Honors. She is the most talented and famous student that she was voted as Most Popular Girl. With this enlarged talent, she joins the speech team and got the second position at East Nashville High School.

She was successfully having full scholarship after winning an oratory contest to Tennessee State University, a historically black institution where she completed Communication. She also won Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant at the age of 17^th. Winfrey was the first black female and youngest news anchor at Nashville's WLAC-TV. In 1984, Oprah moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, AM Chicago, which became the number one local talk show—surpassing ratings for Donahue—just one month after she began. In less than a year, the show expanded to one hour and was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. It entered national syndication in 1986, becoming the highest-rated talk show in television history. In 1988, she established Harpo Studios, a production facility in Chicago, making her the third woman in the American entertainment industry (after Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball) to own her own studio.

The Oprah Winfrey Show has remained the number one talk show for 21 consecutive seasons of succession. Produced by her production company, Harpo Productions, Inc., the show is seen by an estimated 46 million viewers a week in the United States and is broadcast internationally in 134 countries. In April 2000, Oprah and Hearst Magazines introduced O, The Oprah Magazine, a monthly magazine that has become one of today's leading women's lifestyle publications. It is credited as being the most successful magazine launch in recent history and currently has a circulation of 2.3 million readers each month. In April 2002, Oprah launched the first international edition of O, The Oprah Magazine in South Africa, extending her live your best life message to another broad audience.

Oprah made her acting debut in 1985 as "Sofia" in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, for which she received both Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. She also has been lauded for her performances in the made-for-television movies Before Women Had Wings (1997), There Are No Children Here (1993), and The Women of Brewster Place (1989).

These are the list of award Oprah Winfrey won during her career -
Kennedy Center Honors
Peabody Award
Jean Hershel Humanitarian Award
Spingarn Medal
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host
Anis field-Wolf Book Awards
Bob Hope Humanitarian Award
International Emmy Award for Founders
NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award
People's Choice Award for Favorite Talk Show Host
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show
Producers Guild of America Award - Stanley Kramer Award
Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
People's Choice Award for Favorite Female TV Performer
David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television
TCA Career Achievement Award
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special

Oprah at-present lives on "The Promised Land", 42-acre (17-ha) estate with ocean and mountain views in Montecito, California. Oprah established the Oprah's Angel Network In 1998; Oprah has donated to underprivileged $818 million. As of March of 2018, Oprah's net worth accumulated to 2.8 billion dollars According to public records, Oprah has donated roughly 29% of her net worth. She provides a home in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama before the first anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She is a woman with a golden heart and she feels the grief of needy which she also been gone through.

Although we have got few scary stories from Oprah’s life it will make you hold your breath.  But after I listened to a podcast Super Soul Sunday I totally became obsessed with her. As I was never a fan of Oprah, but after listening to her life story, I certainly have respect for this amazing woman. Her grandma raised her to become a good maid for “good” white people. Her mum favored her light skin sister over her. She never really had a relationship with her mother. Due to the influence of fact number 2, she slept on the front porch as a kid. She was raped at an early age; she feared being raped as she slept on the porch. Her kid died. Due to fact 2, Oprah does not want to be a mother. She was called a monkey by guess in her show. She was molested by her family. She was fired as she was not fit to be a news anchor. Oprah is a classic case; don't judge a book by its cover. She confessing intimate details about her childhood abuse, weight problems, rambunctious love life, and sexual abuse I literally feel that Oprah is the success factor sap and a woman who taught us that never to lose hopes and do try and keep trying until you succeeded. 

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness (Oprah Winfrey)