Published 20:31 IST, October 11th 2019
Oprah Winfrey: 'No regrets about not having kids or getting married'
Oprah Winfrey, the American talk show host, claims that she has no regrets about not having kids or getting married despite getting engaged to Stedman Graham.
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Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, claims that she has regrets about t having kids or getting married despite getting engd to her long-time partner Stedman Graham in year 1992. While talking to an international media outlet, Winfrey said that her job has allowed her to see “ depth of responsibility and sacrifice” that is required to become a mor and she doesn't have ability to compartmentalise way or women do. 65-year-old met Graham at a charity event in 1986 but never decided to walk down aisle as she believes that y wouldn't have been toger if y would've gotten married.
"I realized, 'Whoa, I'm talking to a lot of messed-up people, and y are messed up because y h mors and fars who were t aware of how serious that job is.' I don't have ability to compartmentalise way I see or women do. It is why, throughout my years, I have h highest regard for women who choose to be at home [with] ir kids, because I don't kw how you do that all day long. body gives women credit y deserve," Winfrey said.
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She said, "Both he and I w say, 'If we h married, we would t be toger,'" she said. " question about it -- we would t stay married, because of what that would have meant to him, and I would have h my own ideas about it."
Winfrey on morhood
Winfrey also explained that decision to t have children was never because of lack of caring as talk show host refers students in 'Oprah Winfrey Leership Acemy for Girls', a boarding school, as her beautiful South African daughters and describes her relationship far less fraught than many tied by biological morhood. She claims to get inspiration of moring and nurturing and encouraging people to become most auntic, truthful version of oneself from ne or than writer Maya Angelou.
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“I have t h one regret about [t having kids or getting married]. I also believe that part of reason why I don't have regrets is because I got to fulfill it in way that was best for me: Oprah Winfrey Leership Acemy for Girls in South Africa. Those girls fill that maternal fold that I perhaps would have h. In fact, y overfill -- I'm overflowed with maternal," she said.
(With inputs from ANI)
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20:06 IST, October 11th 2019