http://www.oprah.com/about/press/about_press_bio.jhtml

I mean come on – how much more straightforward can it get – the web site is OPRAH.com.

In the time it took you to log onto your computer, get to this site, login to Yahoo, type your question, preview it and submit it, you could have had your answers had you simply used a search engine in the first place.

Interesting Facts About Oprah:

* Oprah’s name came from the biblical name Orpah . Two letters were accidentally switched when her birth certificate was written.

* In 1977 the Baltimore station Oprah worked at (WJZ-TV) sent her to New York to get a ” make-over “. They wanted to change her and maker her look Puerto Rican. They tried to thin her hair, which stung her scalp so bad that Oprah was bald within a week. This taught Oprah a lesson, ” I’ve since vowed to live my own life, to always be myself. ”

*In May 1993 The Oprah Winfrey Show had a greater number of women viewers than network news programs, night time talk shows, morning talk programs, and any single daytime soap opera.

* After training with her trainer, Bob Greene, Oprah ran the Marine’s Marathon the same year she turned 40.

* In a 1997 survey, Oprah ranked 2nd only to Mother Teresa in a poll asking who was most likely to go to heaven.

* Every December Oprah does her ” Favorite Things ” show where she showcases her favorite things for the year. Every show each audience member brings home everything on Oprah’s favorite things list. This year, 2005, Oprah had her audience filled with Hurricane Katrina volunteers. Each of these $quot; American Heroes ” as Oprah calls them, brought home a video ipod, Burberry coat and purse, a T-Mobile BlackBerry phone, a Sony VAIO FJ Notebook computer, just to name a few.

* After 16 years of Oprah rejecting to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman , she finally agreed in early December and Letterman got a taste of just how powerful Oprah is. The estimated viewers tripled to 13.5 million people. Only three other times has Letterman had a bigger audience.

* Oprah currently lives on “The Promised Land”, her 42 acre ocean view estate in Montecito, California. Winfrey was at a party the previous owners were throwing and fell in love with the estate so much that she was reported to having purchased it by writing a personal check for $50 million, even though it was not for sale.

* 33 percent of respondents to an online poll at Beliefnet.com, a website that covers all kinds of religions and spiritual paths as they intersect with popular culture, said Winfrey has had a more profound impact on their spiritual lives than their clergypersons.

* Oprah’s Angel Network has rasied over $35 million to date, including 9 million of that from viewers responding to the ChristmasKindness South Africa 2002 initiative which Oprah calls, “the single greatest moment of my life”.

* Oprah lost her beloved golden retriever Gracie in May 2007 when she choked on a plastic ball.

* Oprah is not very fond of shoes. Indeed; she prefers walking barefoot.

*Oprah asked fashion designer Ralph Lauren to design custom-made cashmere jackets for her dogs, so they can be kept warm in the winter.

check out these website if you want to see some pictures and trivias and facts..

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http://www.oprah.com/about/press/about_press_bio.jhtml

Or Google her.

Don’t rely on others to do your searching for you

1. she was molested by a family member at a young age

2. she has a boyfriend named Steadman -(spelling?)

and… that’s all I know. lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey