奧普拉是誰?一代傳媒女王,身上的標籤實在太多了,有人喜歡她,有人厭惡她。Oprah Winfrey is worth an estimated $2.9 billion. She is ranked by Forbes as one of the top 15 powerful women in the world. 奧普拉·溫弗瑞的身價估計爲29億美元。她被《福布斯》雜誌評爲世界上最具影響力的15位女性之一。She is the highest paid performer on television, the richest self-made woman, and the richest African-American in the 20th century. 她是收入最高的電視演員,最富有的白手起家的女性,也是20世紀最富有的非裔美國人。
奧普拉六歲的時候,開始和媽媽生活,但誕下二胎的媽媽根本無暇顧及奧普拉,更別提教育了。“渾渾噩噩”長到9歲,奧普拉被來家裏做客的表哥強暴,悲劇就這樣開始了……在之後的5年裏,奧普拉不斷受到其他男性的性騷擾,卻始終缺乏來自家庭的溫暖與關愛,她逐漸自甘墮落,成爲了不良少女。13歲時,被送到少年管教所,但由於少年管教所牀位滿被拒之門外。14歲那年,更是產下一個早夭的孩子。此後,奧普拉再沒有生育。Oprah once said she chose not to become a mother because she had not been treated well by her own mother.
奧普拉曾經說過,她選擇不做母親是因爲她從未受到來自母親的關愛。
自知無法再管教女兒,奧普拉的母親乾脆甩手將她丟給了父親,誰知這恰恰拯救了奧普拉的一生。奧普拉的父親爲她制定了詳細而嚴格的教育計劃,每天背20個單詞、堅持讀書,還要寫讀書報告,完不成任務就別想吃飯。She says, “As strict as he was, he had some concerns about me making the best of my life, and would not accept anything less than what he thought was my best.”
她說,“雖然他很嚴格,但他擔心我能否盡最大努力去豐盈我的人生,當我沒有用盡全力時,他是不接受的。”
在父親的嚴厲管教下,奧普拉的人生開始“反轉”。不僅考上了田納西州州立大學,還在“防火小姐”選美比賽中贏得冠軍,之後更是得到了嘗試播報新聞的機會。隨後,她成爲了納什維爾市首位黑人女播音員。接着,1983年,她被邀請去拯救一檔瀕臨死亡的談話節目《早安芝加哥》。幾個月後,這檔節目成爲芝加哥收視率最高的“脫口秀”。於是,1986年,這檔節目改名爲《奧普拉·溫弗瑞秀》(The Oprah Winfrey Show),播放時長延長到一小時,同類節目中,收視率連續16年美國第一。1988年,奧普拉開辦了自己的電視公司,將其命名爲“哈普”,成爲第一位擁有影視公司的女黑人。在2013年的福布斯名人榜中,奧普拉被列入十億美元以上富豪榜,和巴菲特(Warren E. Buffett)、比爾蓋茨(Bill Gates)一起上封面…
同年,她被時任美國總統的奧巴馬( Barack Obama)授予了“總統自由勳章(the Presidential Medal of Freedom)”,這是美國最高平民榮譽。
The disease, called vitiligo, was in his family, Michael said. "It is something I cannot help. When people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me," he said.
Then Oprah asked the question even she says was embarrassing: "Are you a virgin?"
然後奧普拉問了一個連她自己都覺得尷尬的問題:“你是處男嗎?”
Michael never answered. "I'm a gentleman," he said. "That's something that's private, that shouldn't be spoken about openly. You can call me old-fashioned if you want, but to me that's very personal."