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mama me-time | food for the soul

her difficult relationships, “She decided she has an amazing talent for
her lack of confidence, her to help others, it, because she also knows
emotional fragility, which led and she has an how it feels not to have the
to a weight problem. A word amazing talent support of the most important
has even been coined to for it, because people in your life. Like her
describe the form of therapy she also knows mum, or other relatives, who
that she uses on her show did not accept the allegations
and on herself: Oprahfication. how it feels of abuse that she brought forth
She has reached the status of not to have years later. According to her
an influential spiritual leader, the support own words, Oprah Winfrey did
sharing her values with millions of the most not want to become a mother
of people around the world. important because she did not want to be
She took the defense of Islam people in your a bad example as her mother
in America, calling it “the most was. This is the story of an
misunderstood of the three life.” admirable woman, a woman
major religions”; she has an born in a place and a time that
important audience in the to the top: her grandmother could have made her give up
Arab world, her show ratings and her father gave her the her hopes and dreams, but
reaching records in countries guidance and support she who was instead destined for
such as Saudi Arabia. She needed at crucial times, a greater future. Labelled the
crosses borders and overcomes enabling her to take the right most powerful and influential
cultural difference with her decision and direction, and woman in the world by several
presence and dignity. she considers her good friend references, she will hopefully
Aside from the very public Maya Angelou a mentor. She carry on helping people after
and famous woman, there is decided to help others, and her show stops, the
also Oprah the philanthropist, final episode being scheduled
the woman who dedicates to air in September 2011.
herself to helping people,
mother, baby & child April 2011 women and children over the
world. Her charity, the Oprah’s
Angel Network, supports
non-profit organisations, and
the Oprah Winfrey Leadership
Academy for Girls in South
Africa provides educational
and leadership opportunities
to gifted girls coming from the
same disadvantage background
she grew up in as a child. The
Oprah’s Child Predator Watch
List is a database of convicted
child abuser which she initiated
through her website and
promoted in her show, to
protect children from the abuse
she knows too well.

She has overcome
adversity and used her past, her
experiences and her talent to
become a benefactor for others.
Important figures in her life
helped her make her way

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