Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko,Mississippi.Oprah had a difficult childhood.Her mother was the only one who took care because her mother and father got separated.
When Oprah was six years old she moved to an inner city neighborhood in Milwaukee,Wisconsin with her mother who was less supportive and encouraging than her grandmother.At the age of thirteen Oprah ran away from home,when she was fourteen she came back pregnant,but her son died shortly after birth.
In 2004 Oprah and her team filmed an episode of her show entitled Oprah's Christmas kindness,in which Oprah and her best friend Gayel King her partner Stedman Graham and some crew members travelled to South America.
Although Oprah has continually changed the focus of her show since the mid-1990s her success has been as popularizing of the "tabloid talk show" genre and turning it into a thriving industry that has included Ricki Lake ,The Jenny Jones Show and The Jerry Springer show.
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