Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has spoken openly about being molested during her childhood and early teens. At 14, she became pregnant, but her son was born prematurely and died in infancy.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Oprah moved to live with Vernon Winfrey, a barber in Nashville whom she considers her father. While still in high school, she secured a job in radio. By age 19, she was a co-anchor for a local evening news program.<\/p>\n
Her emotional and spontaneous style of delivery eventually led to a shift to daytime talk shows. She famously helped transform a struggling Chicago talk show from third place to first and went on to establish her own production company\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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