Why does Oprah have no husband and/or children?

A couple of years ago, the BBC ran an article which said: > She (Oprah) is equally vocal about her private life, explaining that she chose never to have children "because I wasn't mothered well". "I never felt compelled to do it. I always felt tha... read more

She's no doubt had to make to many sacrifices to get to where she's gotten to today. Although a replication of her own childhood would be a physical impossibility, perhaps she felt it would not be right to bring a child into the world if she could not devote the proper amount of attention to raising it. read more

And Oprah Winfrey, 63, says she has no regrets over not having children with her partner of thirty years Stedman Graham, because she doesn't have the 'patience'. The star famously founded the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, a boarding school in South Africa which opened in 2007 and houses 172 girls. read more

Oprah Winfrey, who often feels like the nation’s unofficial matriarch, says she never had children because “my kids would hate me.” While her best friend was writing down potential baby names in seventh grade Home-Ec classes, “I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King,” Oprah told the The Hollywood Reporter in a recent interview. read more