Birth / Childhood
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29 , in the year 1954. She was born in a rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi. She was born to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey . Soon after Oprah was born her unmarried parents were divorced. They left Oprah in charge of taking care of her grandmother in the the farm.
When she was a child she used to entertain herself by play acting in front of her audiences which were the animals. Her grandmother was very strict. She thought Oprah how to read at the age of two. She skipped Kindergarten after writing a letter to a teacher convincing her how she belongs in the first grade. She was then promoted to the third grade after that year.
When Oprah was six years old she was sent to her mother and two step brothers in Milwaukee ghetto , which was an extremely poor and dangerous neighborhood. When she was twelve years old she then moved to Nashville, Tennessee with her father. She was very happy there. While she was living there she began making speech and they would pay her for that. There she knew she wanted to be paid to talk. Oprah was called back by her mother so she had to go back and move in with her. Oprah was a teenager at that point. One day this man her family trusted abused and raped Oprah. Her mother didn't really know about this because she always worked and did not have much supervision for her.
When she was a child she used to entertain herself by play acting in front of her audiences which were the animals. Her grandmother was very strict. She thought Oprah how to read at the age of two. She skipped Kindergarten after writing a letter to a teacher convincing her how she belongs in the first grade. She was then promoted to the third grade after that year.
When Oprah was six years old she was sent to her mother and two step brothers in Milwaukee ghetto , which was an extremely poor and dangerous neighborhood. When she was twelve years old she then moved to Nashville, Tennessee with her father. She was very happy there. While she was living there she began making speech and they would pay her for that. There she knew she wanted to be paid to talk. Oprah was called back by her mother so she had to go back and move in with her. Oprah was a teenager at that point. One day this man her family trusted abused and raped Oprah. Her mother didn't really know about this because she always worked and did not have much supervision for her.
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