Information about My Star, Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an actress, talk show hostess, and TV producer. She was born in January 29, 1954 in Mississippi. She lived with her maternal grandmother until 6, then she went to Milwaukee to live with her mother. Her mother was a housemaid and her father worked in Army. She was sexually abused by her uncle, cousin, and a friend family when she was 9. She beacame pregnant when she was 14 and her was born dead, this event affected her and after this she decided to change her life. at 16 years old, her mother sent her to Tennessee to live with her father. Her father forced her to read a book each week and write something about it. At this age she was working for a radio station to read the news. At 19 she started working in Baltimore TV as a reporter, but she fired at 22 years old. The direction of TV gave her a chance and ask her to work in a talk show, and she did it successfuly for 7 years, then she moved to Chicago and worked in a talk show, and after 4 years changed the name of the talk show to "Oprah". She also has worked in a movie called "The Color Purple", and nominated for Oscar. She have many achivements such as Emmy and Golden Glob awards and the Presidential Freedom Medal. Also, she is a richest self-made woman in America. She has supported many charities such as Unicef, Women for Women International, V-Day and so on.