Oprah Winfrey about giving birth at 14. The difficult path of a self-made billionaire

You probably know Oprah Winfrey who is a very famous talk show host. She is so successful now, but as she tells, her life wasn’t always easy and she faced so many difficulties. What you might not know is that the self-made billionaire got pregnant and had a baby when she was only 14 years old. This is how her path to being star was like.

Being a mom at just 14

Oprah Winfrey sadly had a very difficult childhood and has many traumas, the poor little girl was sexually abused and what is worse, by her own family members. She was raped when she was only 9 by her own cousin who was 19-years old. The abuse unfortunately didn’t end and continued for the next four years, also from two other family members. And that’s how at just 14 years old she became pregnant.

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Oprah tells that she tried to hide her pregnancy a long as it was possible, since she knew she was going to be ashamed for it.

She was very frightened of the idea that she might be expelled from school and have no future. It’s hard to imagine what she felt and how hard it was for her to overcome all that difficulties emotionally.

The beginning of a new life

Giving birth happened prematurely, and the baby died not long after in the hospital the same day. Her father told right in the hospital that that was an end but a start of a new beginning for her. He explained that you need to give a second chance to yourself to start everything differently.

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Today we see how powerful and famous woman she became and is loved all over the world. This is a very inspirational story to never give up, because good things are always left to come.