American media executive, Oprah Winfrey, covers the “Women Changing the World” issue of People Magazine. In the feature, she opens up about her reasons for not getting married or having any children. She revealed that though marriage and motherhood weren’t exactly in her cards, she did consider it at one time.
Due to the demands of her talk show at the time, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” she apparently started to think of the depth of responsibility and sacrifice that is actually required to be a mother.
“At one point in Chicago I had bought an additional apartment because I was thinking, well, if we get married, I’m going to need room for children. I realized, ‘Whoa, I’m talking to a lot of messed-up people, and they are messed up because they had mothers and fathers who were not aware of how serious that job is,” Oprah shared.
Her longtime boyfriend, Stedman Graham, 68, also agrees that being married would have changed their relationship. Oprah said; “Both he and I now say, ‘If we had married, we would not be together, no question about it.”
“I believe that part of the reason why I don’t have regrets is because I got to fulfill it in the way that was best for me: the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa,” she said. “Those girls fill that maternal fold that I perhaps would have had. In fact, they overfill I’m overflowed with maternal,” she added.
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By: The Arubayi Keme
