'If I had kids, they would hate me': Oprah Winfrey has no regrets about not starting a family, because 'something would have had to suffer'
No regrets: Oprah Winfrey says any kids would have 'hated her' in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter and is the...
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No regrets: Oprah Winfrey says any kids would have 'hated her' in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter and is their cover star |
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Great honor: Oprah tears up at the podium as the media mogul gets a great big dose of good fortune on Tuesday morning |
But Oprah Winfrey has no regrets, commentating it would have been difficult making time for a family amid her busy career.
'If I had kids, my kids would hate me,' she tells The Hollywood Reporter in its new issue. 'They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.'
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Oprah Winfrey attends THR's Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast |
'Gayle [now a mother of two] was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade Home Ec class, was writing down her name and the names of her children,' she says. 'While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King.'
Celebrating her Sherry Lansing Leadership Award with a new interview, the 59-year-old businesswoman and talk-show host candidly discusses the struggles launching her TV network OWN, her financial success, and reports she suffered a nervous breakdown last year.
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Sherry Lansing congratulates honoree Oprah Winfrey |