It is amazing how she loses weight and gains it without much struggle. She introduced the weight watchers and found the program helpful. Through this program, she is able to maintain her weight through regular exercises.

It's no secret that Oprah has struggled with her weight for decades. Over the years, she's spoken candidly about bouncing from one diet to the next, emotional eating and her drug of choice—potato chips. In 1988, The Oprah Show received its highest ratings of all time when Oprah celebrated a 67-pound weight loss by wheeling a wagon full of fat onto the stage. Soon after, her size 10 jeans didn't zip and the pounds began to add up again. In 1992, Oprah met personal trainer Bob Greene. At the time, she weighed 237 pounds, the heaviest she says she's ever been. She made a commitment to her health, began to lose weight and even ran a marathon...but the weight loss roller coaster continued.

When Oprah turned 50 in 2004, she seemed to have her health and weight under control. For years, she maintained her figure with diet and exercise. She says she thought she had it all figured out, but in 2007, as Oprah dealt with emotional and medical issues, the number on the scale began to creep closer to 200. To begin living her best life, Oprah's speaking candidly about what she calls "the brown elephant in the room"—her weight gain.

Harpo is one of the American multimedia production companies that was founded by Oprah Winfrey. The company is based in West Hollywood, California. It was born in 1986. The company's origins can trace back to 1985 when Oprah appeared in The Color Purple.

Oprah Winfrey got her roots in 1988 when Harpo Productions had to acquire her eponymous talk show from ABC O&O WLS-TV in Chicago, and automatically renewed its deal with King World Productions, who held minority interest, which was set to expire in 1991. Harpo Productions' subsidiaries consist of Harpo Print, the company's publishing house, and a minority interest in cable network Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Harpo originally owned 50% of OWN along with Discovery Communications, which purchased 24.5% of OWN in 2017 and a further 20.5% in 2020, leaving Harpo with 5% ownership.

With offices in Los Angeles, Harpo Inc. is one of the most successful production companies in the world. Global black owned company with the highest paid performers in television industry history. Surprisingly, with only 200 employees, the company generates sales amounting to approximately $15.55 million.

She is ranked No. 9 in the Forbes richest self-made American women in 2020. Her net work amounts to $2.7 billion. One of her many homes is her base, that is Montecito, California. However, she has other homes in Illinois, Florida, Hawaii, Colorado and Washington State. Despite the many homes, Oprah has impacted the life of many people including family and her staff. One great milestone that she has overcome is to treat her employees with respect as she. Self-made billionaire Oprah Winfrey has sparked speculation she could consider a presidential run in 2020 following her widely shared Golden Globes speech on Sunday evening.

Winfrey’s media empire made her a billionaire in 2003 at age 49, but she began life at the other extreme. Born in rural Mississippi to an unmarried teen mother, she grew up in poverty and endured years of sexual abuse. She also published her own magazine, started a radio channel, partnered with Discovery Communications to launch a cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and started a private charity. Today, Winfrey has an estimated net worth of $2.8 billion. And she shows no signs of slowing down.

O, That’s Good is Oprah’s Pizza line which was developed in collaboration with Kraft Heinz. It has different varieties, a twist of cauliflower but mainly fire-roasted veggie, uncured pepperoni, five cheese and supreme varieties. After rescuing Weight Watchers and investing in a healthy restaurant chain earlier this year, Oprah Winfrey is now getting into the frozen pizza business.

The 11-inch pies are intended to serve five people. “Pizza is a favorite, fun and easy food to share with family and friends,” said Winfrey in a statement. “I am always looking to add a nutritious twist to my foods, so we made part of the crust in my new pizza with cauliflower while maintaining that classic, cheesy pizza flavor you and your family love.”

O, That’s Good! is being made in conjunction with Kraft Heinz and is available in stores today for $6.99. The launch comes one year to the day that Winfrey, listed by Fortune magazine as one of Fortune’s Greatest Leaders, began selling grocery-store refrigerated soups and side dishes. The supreme pizza has just 320 calories per serving, and contains 4.5g of sat fat and 720mg of sodium (30% DV).

The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls – South Africa (OWLAG) is a boarding school for girls, grades 8-12, in Henley on Klip, Gauteng Province, South Africa. The school is a project begun by the American entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey in 2002, born out of a discussion she had with South African president Nelson Mandela in 2000. OWLAG opened in 2007 and its inaugural class of 72 girls graduated in 2011.

Inspired by her own disadvantaged childhood, Winfrey stated that she founded the Leadership Academy to provide educational and leadership opportunities for academically gifted girls from impoverished backgrounds in South Africa who exhibited leadership qualities for making a difference in the world. She wanted to help girls who grew up like her, "economically disadvantaged, but not poor in mind or spirit".

The school teaches the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) curriculum and writes the South African National Senior Certificate. In May, 2021, Lindiwe Tsope became the first graduate of the Academy to be awarded a PhD.

Apple and Oprah Winfrey have signed a multi-year content partnership. Under the deal, Winfrey and Apple will create programs that will be released as part of Apple’s original content lineup. The deal marks one of the first such agreements struck between Apple and a content creator. Previously, Apple set an overall deal with veteran showrunner Kerry Ehrin. Ehrin will also serve as the showrunner on Apple’s upcoming morning show drama series starring and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston.

This is also the latest addition to Winfrey’s media empire. The former hit talk show host formed her own cable network, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, in 2011 in partnership with Discovery Communications. The channel has become one of the fastest-growing cable networks among women and has produced hit shows like “Queen Sugar,” which boasts Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay as showrunner.

Even before the Oprah deal, Apple has a robust slate of originals prepared to launch. In addition to the previously mentioned morning show drama, the streamer is prepping shows like a reboot of Steven Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories,” a psychological thriller series from executive producer M. Night Shyamalan, the true crime podcast drama series “Are You Sleeping?” starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul, and an Emily Dickinson series starring Hailee Steinfeld among many others. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been aggressively pursuing top talent and locking them down with lucrative deals. Perhaps most famously, Netflix signed both Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes to deals valued at over nine figures each.

When she acquired the $900,000 condominium off the coast of Miami Beach in Florida, she organized a bonding tour with her editorial staff. This was at her house on Fisher Island. Her neighborhood of celebrities who own condominiums include Boris Becker, Sharon Gless, Mel Brooks, and his wife Anne Bancroft.

The billionaire American talk show host, producer and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey , most famous for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show is the owner of a Gulfstream G550 private jet. Using the registration tail number N540W, the jet has a price tag of $75 million. This twin-engine business jet airplane produced by Gulfstream Aerospace can hold up to 16 passengers. It even includes a full bathroom with a shower and bath! Being the best private jet money can buy, Oprah of course had to splurge a little of her million of dollars to get from place to place in style and luxury.

Oprah tells the story of why she bought her private jet, saying she bought her private jet for “some more privacy, and a lot more convenience”. After countless interactions with people in commercial airports saying to Oprah she was not “acting like you do on TV,” Oprah finally got fed up with it and switched to private aviation. Oprah stresses how wealth isnt all about buying expensive toys, it’s more important to help others as she has done countless times on her talk show.

Out of her generosity, she treated her staff with their families to a 10 day all fully paid Mediterranean cruise in 2009. They had stopovers in Spain, Italy, Greece and Malta. This treat costs her $706,877. Through all of her success, Oprah always made time for philanthropy. In 2004, Oprah became the first African American to rank in the top 50 most generous Americans. By 2012 it was estimated she had donated about $400 million for educational causes. Oprah’s contributions to education don’t end there. She has also supplied over 400 scholarships to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2013, Winfrey donated $12 million to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History of Culture and was later recognized by President Obama for her contributions with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 1998, Oprah created her own charitable organization, Oprah’s Angel Network. The organization was put in place to help charitable projects and provide grants to nonprofit organizations globally. Oprah made it her mission to have 100% of all funds go straight to charity programs so she personally covered all administrative costs in order for Oprah’s Angel Network to operate. The organization raised over $80 million by 2010 before they stopped taking donations and eventually dissolved. However, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Oprah created the Oprah Angel Network Katrina Registry. The relief efforts raised $11 million and had homes built in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama prior to the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and Rita.

In 2004 in her talk show, she surprised her audience by giving each a Pontiac car. There were 276 people and each got a car. This cost Oprah $28,500. She claimed that this was one of her happiest moments ever in her life. Oprah was brought up by her grandmother who instilled in her good morals. Her generosity extends to the public and her family. However, Oprah has no children. She considers the duty of a mother to be committing and so could not handle the two, being a career woman and a mother. She loves her happy moments, one being the gifting of her audience each with a care. Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car. “We’re calling this our wildest dream season, because this year on the Oprah show, no dream is too wild, no surprise too impossible to pull off,” Winfrey said on the show that aired Monday.

Winfrey said the audience members were chosen because their friends or family had written about their need for a new car. One woman’s young son said she drove a car that “looks like she got into a gunfight”; another couple had almost 400,000 miles on their two vehicles. Making sure the audience was kept in suspense, Winfrey opened the show by calling 11 people onto the stage. She gave each of them a car — a Pontiac G6. She then had gift boxes distributed to the rest of the audience and said one of the boxes contained keys to a 12th car. But when everyone opened the boxes, each had a set of keys. “Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!” Winfrey yelled as she jumped up and down on the stage. The audience screamed, cried and hugged each other — then followed Winfrey out to the parking lot of her Harpo Studios to see their Pontiacs, all decorated with giant red bows.