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The woman in the photo is named Oprah, one of the most influential women in the world.
She has many identities: a world celebrity, a businessman, a star, a billionaire woman, a great philanthropist, and so on.
In every field, she has done the top.
As a host, she hosts Oprah Talk Show, the world's most talk-about talk show, attracting 33 million viewers a week.
As a businessman, she controlled the Haup Entertainment Group, which created a $1 billion fortune for her.
Her achievements have attracted the world's attention, and there is a term in the media world called the "Oprah effect", which is used to refer specifically to the chain reaction brought about by Oprah.
The University of Illinois in the United States even held a special class to study her, which shows how successful this woman is.
But you know what?
Such a woman with excellent grades, when she was 10 to 14 years old, used to be a promiscuous woman.
She was pregnant at the age of 14.
It is such a problem girl, but has achieved such brilliant results.
So, how did she achieve self-redemption?
One
Oprah had an unhappy childhood.
And all this misfortune is due to her mother, Venita Lee.
Vinita Lee was a maid who was a minor when she was pregnant with Oprah, let alone married, which meant oprah was actually an illegitimate daughter.
The three words "illegitimate daughter" doom Oprah to have an extraordinary childhood.
After giving birth to Oprah, Venita Lee went out again to earn money, leaving her to her parents to raise.
Grandma did not want to see this granddaughter.
After all, this female doll was not born so "glorious", the family is not rich, but also to raise this little life.
This made Grandma's opinion of Oprah even greater, and she often beat and scolded her.
From a very young age, Oprah has learned how to live well.
Oprah lives with her grandparents in the barren countryside, within a kilometer radius, with only one child.
She had no playmates, so she could only raise cockroaches as her pets, treat the sheep on the farm as her little friends, and give them names.
She has no toys, makes her own corn cobs into dolls, and plays with them at home.
She didn't have beautiful clothes, sacks of potatoes, and put them on her, which was her clothes.
For this, she also earned the title of "Potato Girl".
Life was tough, and little Oprah couldn't even eat.
But those days when I couldn't eat enough, couldn't afford to wear beautiful clothes, and didn't have toys were the happiest days before Oprah was 14 years old.
Two
At the age of 6, Oprah ushered in an important turning point in her life.
That year, she was picked up by her mother in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
However, she did not get the pampering she deserved.
The mother lived in the slums, still working as a maid to others, earning some cheap fees, and the mother did not live well here, and her meager income was barely enough.
In addition, she is still abusive.
The boyfriend of the relationship is as unreliable as ever, not to mention that adult life depends on her, and it is good not to squeeze her.
In such a situation, she was alone with a little girl, and the days could be imagined difficult.
Finally, when Oprah was 8 years old, Venita Lee finally couldn't raise Oprah and sent her to her biological father.
Oprah's father, named Vernon Winfrey, was a former soldier who, after retiring from the army, worked as a hairdresser in the impoverished mining area.
At that time, after a night of affair between Venita Lee and her, there was Oprah.
So the two did not marry, and Vernon Winfrey initially did not know that he had a daughter, but married someone else.
When Oprah was sent, the couple just happened to have no children, so they were more pampered to her.
If Oprah had lived with her father, she would not have had the unbearable past of her life.
Less than a year after Vinita Lee sent her daughter away, she missed her daughter and took her daughter to her side.
9-year-old Oprah ushered in the darkest moment of her life.
One day, while she was playing at home, one of her cousins came and held out his sinful hands to her........
In the years since, Oprah has been subjected to various "harassments" of all kinds, including her relatives, her friends, and her mother's boyfriend.
Venita Lee is undoubtedly a loser emotionally, and the several children she has given birth to, all of which are illegitimate.
This also had an important impact on Oprah's feelings for the future.
Under repeated violations, Oprah fell into depravity, and she began to have promiscuous, smoke D, and drink.
The whole person became a problem girl.
Even at the age of 14, she became pregnant.
This caused Venita Lee a great headache, and by this time she was unable to discipline Oprah, so she sent her daughter to her father again.
Three
Looking at his pregnant daughter, Vernon Winfrey was furious.
At the same time, he was also very distressed about his daughter, and after some thought, he decided to let her daughter give birth to the child.
However, because of Oprah's indulgence and alcoholism, the baby's physical fitness was not very good, and he died after only a short period of survival.
However, at that time, Oprah did not have much sadness.
A 14-year-old girl, not yet aware of anything.
She was sent back to school by her father and was faced with a difficult problem of how to become a good student.
Her father and stepmother disciplined her so harshly that she had to memorize 20 words a week and write reading notes or she would not be allowed to eat.
Father's idea is simple: since you don't love to learn, force you to learn, and eventually form a habit.
This is very worthy of people's reference, habit is a very powerful force, people who do not love to work, not also work 8 hours a day after day, rain or shine!
Of course, compulsion wasn't enough to change Oprah's life.
She also needs to be self-motivated and strive for her own efforts to achieve her current results.
And her luck is also very good, just returned to campus for about a year or so, encountered an opportunity to reverse life.
The man's name was Jesse Jackson, and he was another charismatic spiritual leader for black people after Martin Luther King Jr.
Likewise, he was an extraordinary orator.
In 1969, Jesse Jackson went to Oprah's school to give a speech that was so passionate that the crowd listened to it with fascination.
Among them, he has this sentence that caught Oprah's attention:
"Excellence is the most effective way to stop racial discrimination, so strive for excellence."
This sentence can be said to have directly changed Oprah's life, and since then, she has been pursuing excellence.
The power of idols is undoubtedly enormous, and the choice of a person in this life is very important for a correct idol, and can really change a person's life.
Such was the case with Oprah.
Four
Since then, Oprah has studied hard and fallen in love with speaking.
In just two years, she has completed the transformation from a problem girl to an excellent student, and in this regard, it can also be seen that Oprah is also a talented little girl.
At the age of 16, she also participated in a speech contest.
He killed a bloody path among more than 10,000 people, won a further education scholarship from Tennessee State University, had $1,000, and had the opportunity to study at Tennessee State University.
The main things to learn are language and art.
This also laid the foundation for her future life path.
Of course, this does not mean that Oprah's path of hosting is smooth sailing, and as a black person, her path is particularly difficult.
At the age of 16, by chance, she became an announcer.
In that year, she visited a radio station, and at the "instigation" of the host, she sat in front of the microphone and read a paragraph.
After finishing, the host was very surprised and specially recommended her to his boss.
In this way, Oprah had his first job.
It was this job that she fell in love with the media, and she felt that her life values were there.
So, at the age of 19, Oprah became the first black journalist for the TV channel WLAC-TV, which is a very remarkable achievement.
However, behind the pride, there is also suffering.
Five
While working as a journalist, she also hosts an evening news program part-time.
Her words are sharp, her point of view is clear, and she often follows the content of the program, and the great joy and great sorrow are obviously unqualified for an objective and fair host.
Oprah has also been criticized for this.
In addition, her "not amazing" appearance has also become the target of people's attacks.
For this reason, Oprah had to walk through the doors of the cosmetic hospital.
But the doctor rejected her on the grounds that Oprah was too ugly and malleable.
This is undoubtedly a humiliation for her.
As the controversy grew, television stations had to take steps to transfer Oprah to a morning show, "People Are Talking," which mainly interviewed celebrities.
Initially, Oprah was also scared.
After all, I am only a fledgling newcomer, why do those big celebrities talk to themselves?
At this time, she interviewed a person, thus giving her confidence.
The man's name is Robin Williams, and he is also the teacher who plays the teacher in The Dead Poetry Society.
Over the course of their conversation, Robin Williams is humorous and at the same time eclectic, and unlike the traditional interview routine, he often says wherever he wants.
This was refreshing for Oprah, who turned out to be able to do so on the interview show.
A fresh door slowly opened in front of her.
In addition, Oprah's interview with Elvis Presley's ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, also gave her confidence.
Prior to the interview, Priscilla Presley's agent made it clear that during the interview, never ask questions about Elvis Presley.
However, during the interview, Oprah asked, and Priscilla Presley answered.
From this, Oprah determined his own hosting style.
In addition, she is quick-thinking and can keenly grasp the emotional fluctuations of the interviewers in the process of interviewing, so as to guide the topic in the most attractive direction.
This style was loved by the audience.
"People Talking" has become increasingly popular, so Oprah has also achieved a class jump for the first time.
In 1984, Chicago's American broadcasting company WLS Television poached her for $230,000 a year and hosted the show "Chicago Morning", which also exploded in ratings.
As a result, Oprah became popular in the United States.
The following year, the show was renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show.
In the third year, Oprah founded his own company, owned the entire rights to oprah Winfrey, and aired it nationwide, and soon became the ace show for talk shows.
The show lasted 1/4 century, invited more than 30,000 guests, had a cumulative live audience of more than one million, and had a TELEVISION audience in nearly 150 countries around the world, winning 48 Emmy Awards.......
Of course, it also brought her huge wealth.
However, compared to her career success, her feelings are difficult to describe.
Six
The unfortunate experience of childhood directly affected Oprah's feelings.
At the age of 17, she fell in love with a man who was an addict.
In order to be with this man, she did not hesitate to touch the D pin, but unfortunately it ended up in the end.
At the age of 27, she fell in love with radio DJ Tim Woz again, a relationship she paid a lot for.
However, this man is a scumbag, who already has a family, which makes Oprah devastated and once wanted to end his life.
At the age of 31, Oprah had a boyfriend who was 7 years younger than herself.
She also let the little man move into her own home and proposed to the man, but the other party told her that she did not want to get married when she was young, and she also died without any trouble.
It wasn't until an event in 1986 that Oprah met Stedman Graham.
It was also at this time that Oprah became popular, and the fact that she gave birth to a child at the age of 14 was exposed by people close to her.
It was a very big blow to Oprah, and thanks to Stedman Graham by her side, she got through that time.
After many emotional failures, Oprah understood.
No longer intending to get married, although Stedman Graham had successfully married her as early as 1996, the two never had a wedding.
Both have their own ideas about this kind of life, not marrying and only living together.
Oprah believes she won't be a qualified wife who loves her job and wants to live redundantly if she marries Stedman Graham.
This man would definitely make her a virtuous wife, cooking, cleaning up the housework, etc.
And she obviously couldn't do that.
Stedman Graham also believes that if two people had gotten married, they would have divorced long ago.
Oprah was so red that if married, he would definitely be put on an "Oprah husband" hat, and he hated the concept so much.
Although they were not married, the two have been living happily ever after.
Oprah said Stedman Graham had become her best partner and she couldn't live without him.
Of course, Oprah also has his own regrets, that is, he has not had children all the time.
This is directly related to Oprah's childhood experience, she does not think that she will be a qualified mother, able to successfully educate her children to become talents.
This is very similar to Park Shu.
In any case, Oprah's ability to grow from a depraved black girl to a superstar with a profound influence on the United States is already a legend.
She indirectly influenced the growth of thirty percent of Americans.
Last April, the Forbes Global Rich List was released, and Oprah Winfrey was ranked 1174th on the list with a fortune of $2.7 billion.
Some people, for some reason, their life canvas, at a very young age, was soiled by someone, thus creating a lifetime of shadows.
But in your life, you are the one who controls the paintbrush.
You can also paint wonderful pictures on a dirty canvas, just like Oprah.
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