20 steps to become Oprah:
1. Grow up in extreme poverty in rural Mississippi
2. Be raised by a teenage, single mother
3. Move to slums of Milwaukee
4. Become a bookworm and skip 2 grades of elementary
5. Be raped at 9
6. Run away from home at 13
7. Have a kid who dies in infancy at 14
8. Go live with your father 'cause your mom thinks you're too much
9. Become an honors student
10. Be voted "Most Popular Girl in School"
11. Win Miss Black Tennessee Beauty Pageant
12. Land a radio job in high school
13. Co-anchor the local news at 19
14. Segue into the daytime talk show arena and immediately boost ratings from 3rd to 1st place
15. Start your own production company
16. Launch Oprah Winfrey Show
17. Surpass Donahue to become #1 talk show in America
18. Interview Michael Jackson to hold title of most watched interview in history (100 million viewers)
19. Create a book club, which alone catapults any single book to become a New York Times Best-Seller
20. Be voted World's Most Powerful Woman and hold a net worth of nearly $3 billion
Watch Oprah ask Michael the million $ question:
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