Here is your short essay on Oprah Winfrey !
“Oprah Winfrey” The Famous American media proprietor gained immense popularity owing to her talk show titled” The Oprah Winfrey Show” which made records of most rated T.V. program in the history. She has also been a great actress, philanthropist besides being an excellent producer. Her African-American identity accompanied by her billionaire status is why she outshines as an influential person.
Oprah Winfrey’s life was not a smooth track to begin with. Her childhood was full of hardships including being raped at an early age of nine. She was born in a poor family and it is even said that her mother was a single teenager who had not enough resources to provide her basic amenities like food and clothing. Her mother worked as a housemaid and her father was a barber, who previously worked as a coal miner.
Even though male relatives had molested Winfrey when she was nine, her family didn’t believe her. Her mother gave birth to 3 children, 2 girls and 1 boy after Winfrey’s birth two of which died with severe illness. Winfrey was pregnant at the age of 14 after she had run away from home tired of the abuse. Poverty didn’t change for any good even after she started attending the London High School.
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After moving to her father, Vernon, she joined the State University of Tennessee and began working at a radio station where she co-anchored an evening local news program. She had such a potential that a third grade Chicago talk show which she hosted became top rated in a very short period of time. Her other early achievements included winning a beauty pageant at the age of 17.The interest and focus of the tabloid talk show shifted from encouraging the LGBT people into the mainstream to promoting literature, spirituality and teaching self-improvement.
Oprah Winfrey considers her grandmother to have a key influence in encouraging her towards public speaking. Becoming the first youngest as well as first black female anchor at the local news channel showcased her excellent interviewing and vocal skills. Winfrey didn’t only make her mark as an influential person in the media industry but her announcement of the Oprah Winfrey Network in collaboration with the Discovery Communications was another significant achievement. OWN earned billions of revenue through the talk show hosted by Winfrey with American cyclist, Lance Armstrong who had admitted his use of performance improving substances openly on the show after all his seven titles had been taken back in 2012 due to doping and the show was aired.
Oprah was declared as the richest African American who was a billionaire for three decades by the Forbes Magazine. Even the Business Week magazine acclaimed her as the greatest philanthropist amongst the Blacks in year 2008.
Charity has been motivated towards doing charity and staying a devoted activist for child rights. She moved a proposal to the Congress which was enforced into a law by Clinton in 1994 in order to create a database of all child abusers in the nation. Oprah is a woman who has earned great respect and fame as a media giant in spite of hardships that she faced as a child and teenager.