Oprah Winfrey has come from a very hard childhood. Fame and fortune was not handed to Oprah Winfrey- like it is to many other celebrities in our world today. When Oprah was very young, her parents were divorced and she was forced to live with her grandparents. She was sexually molested by male relatives and grew up in a poor neighborhood and overall bad environment. At 14 she moved in with her father in Tennessee. She struggled with drugs, lost a baby prematurely, and was an overall rebel. Her father was very strict, so her rebellious behavior was put to a stop when it came to Oprah's schoolwork. She was always a very intelligent human being, striving and aiming to achieve the highest grades and more out of life in general. Oprah not only worked for her highschool radio newscaster, but she also worked for a news reporter for a television show as an anchor in Nashville. This is where it all began. She was the first African- American woman to work as a news anchor in Nashville on this tv station- at age19! However, Winfrey was never comfortable doing the news until one section of the broadcasting came where she was able to express her own opinions about topics that moved her. In 1984, Winfrey moved to Chicago to host an early morning talk show called "AM Chicago". It was renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show" about one year later and was ranked the #1 talk show.
"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Winfrey
I think that Oprah is a really interesting Role Model to have and for good reason. Oprah does so much for people. I think that not a lot of people know about her childhood and if you talk about more of her early life it could be really interesting. I'm sure everyone knows who Oprah is and has watched her show before so if you focus on her childhood it could make for a really interesting topic!
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