奥普拉是谁?一代传媒女王,身上的标签实在太多了,有人喜欢她,有人厌恶她。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. 奥普拉·温弗瑞的身价估计为29亿美元。她被《福布斯》杂志评为世界上最具影响力的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. 她是收入最高的电视演员,最富有的白手起家的女性,也是20世纪最富有的非裔美国人。
奥普拉六岁的时候,开始和妈妈生活,但诞下二胎的妈妈根本无暇顾及奥普拉,更别提教育了。“浑浑噩噩”长到9岁,奥普拉被来家里做客的表哥强暴,悲剧就这样开始了……在之后的5年里,奥普拉不断受到其他男性的性骚扰,却始终缺乏来自家庭的温暖与关爱,她逐渐自甘堕落,成为了不良少女。13岁时,被送到少年管教所,但由于少年管教所床位满被拒之门外。14岁那年,更是产下一个早夭的孩子。此后,奥普拉再没有生育。Oprah once said she chose not to become a mother because she had not been treated well by her own mother.
奥普拉曾经说过,她选择不做母亲是因为她从未受到来自母亲的关爱。
自知无法再管教女儿,奥普拉的母亲干脆甩手将她丢给了父亲,谁知这恰恰拯救了奥普拉的一生。奥普拉的父亲为她制定了详细而严格的教育计划,每天背20个单词、坚持读书,还要写读书报告,完不成任务就别想吃饭。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.”
她说,“虽然他很严格,但他担心我能否尽最大努力去丰盈我的人生,当我没有用尽全力时,他是不接受的。”
在父亲的严厉管教下,奥普拉的人生开始“反转”。不仅考上了田纳西州州立大学,还在“防火小姐”选美比赛中赢得冠军,之后更是得到了尝试播报新闻的机会。随后,她成为了纳什维尔市首位黑人女播音员。接着,1983年,她被邀请去拯救一档濒临死亡的谈话节目《早安芝加哥》。几个月后,这档节目成为芝加哥收视率最高的“脱口秀”。于是,1986年,这档节目改名为《奥普拉·温弗瑞秀》(The Oprah Winfrey Show),播放时长延长到一小时,同类节目中,收视率连续16年美国第一。1988年,奥普拉开办了自己的电视公司,将其命名为“哈普”,成为第一位拥有影视公司的女黑人。在2013年的福布斯名人榜中,奥普拉被列入十亿美元以上富豪榜,和巴菲特(Warren E. Buffett)、比尔盖茨(Bill Gates)一起上封面…
同年,她被时任美国总统的奥巴马( Barack Obama)授予了“总统自由勋章(the Presidential Medal of Freedom)”,这是美国最高平民荣誉。
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?"
然后奥普拉问了一个连她自己都觉得尴尬的问题:“你是处男吗?”
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."