At The Top of The World!

Theoretical or practical but this one is a common perception that when a journey started with a disaster that predictable to be a failure. Under such circumstances, giving up without a fight is natural but there are many, who preferred to move ahead until they tasted the desired success. Although there are rare cases when peoples came with a horrible past yet marched on until they made it big. My page is all about a woman, born to a poverty stricken single mother, rumoured to be raped when she was only nine, mothered a child when she was fourteen yet with all these drawback she preferred to rally on to reach the place where she is now, that is incomparable. It is about Oprah Winfrey, the USA talk show queen who recently was in India.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey, born as Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954 is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.

Early Life

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.

Achievement

At 18, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. At 19, she was anchoring a newscast on Nashville's WTVF-TV. She later co-anchored the nightly newscast at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, and co-hosted a local talk show called People Are Talking, before jumping to Chicago's WLS-TV. Her morning talk show there debuted in 1984, and rose to number one in the ratings within a month. Outside of local telecasts, Oprah first drew national attention in her film debut, The Color Purple, for which she snagged an Oscar-nomination as best supporting actress. She's acted in other films since, but never nearly so well.

Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream. By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and an emotion-centered approach she is often praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. From 2006 to 2008, her support of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race.

She is the first black American woman billionaire, her net worth $2.4B (Forbes 2010) and reportedly makes about half a million dollars a day from her TV show alone. She owns or co-owns the Oxygen Network, O  Magazine, her own Harpo Studio, Harpo Productions, Harpo Films, Harpo Print, Harpo Video, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Harpo, of course, is Oprah spelled backwards.

!!!Disregard the past and fasten your seat belt, surge forward towards the goal, nothing is there that cannot be achieved.!!!