Oprah Winfrey Reveals Her ‘Greatest, Deepest Joy’

Oprah has opened her own Leadership Academt for Girls in South Africa. And to the girls, they refer to the mogul as Mom O. In a recent interview, Winfrey said “They are my greatest, deepest joy,”.

Opened in 2007, OWLAG, as it’s called, is a boarding school with facilities rivaling those of top prep schools in the United States. More importantly, 90 percent of graduates have enrolled in colleges including Harvard and Oxford — remarkable in a country where roughly 20 percent of students attend university.

“They’re the daughters I did not have,” Winfrey, who’s turning 65 on Jan. 29, says. “I never thought that that mothering instinct was something for me. I like babies, but I like them like, ‘Hi baby, okay, now go over there.’ I like children when they can actually speak to me and tell what is the problem. This is how having children was supposed to manifest for me.”


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