A role model is someone who possesses qualities we admire and who inspires us to be better people. A role model treats others as equals, is honest, trusting, and open-minded. Oprah Winfrey is a role model who overcame a difficult childhood to become a successful talk show host, producer, and philanthropist. She dedicates her life to improving others' lives through encouraging literacy, health, and empowering women to achieve their dreams. Oprah is considered one of the most influential people in the world.

2. Who is a Role Model?
True role models are those who possess the qualities that we
would like to have and those who have affected us in a way that
makes us want to be better people.
To advocate for ourselves and our goals and take leadership on the
issues that we believe in.
A role model is the one who not only treats me as an equal but is
honest, trusting, and most of all open-minded especially in today’s
society.

3. Born : January 29, 1954
Birth Place : Mississippi , United States.
Residence : California , United States.
Occupation : Former Host of ‘The Oprah
Winfrey Show’.
Chairwoman And CEO of
Harpo Productions.
Chairwoman, CEO and CCO
Of the ‘Oprah Winfrey
Network’.

4. Winfrey has suffered alot at the age of six – Sent to live with her
mother.
When she tried to run away - sent to a juvenile detention home,
only to be denied admission because all the beds were filled.
At 14, she was out of the house and on her own.
In 1976, she moved to Baltimore to join WJZ-TV News as a co-
anchor. There, she co-hosted her first talk show, People Are
Talking, while continuing to serve as anchor and news reporter.
A year later, The Oprah Winfrey Show was broadcast nationally - quickly became the number
one talk show.
Her love of acting and her desire to bring quality entertainment projects into production
prompted her to form her own production company, Harpo Productions, Inc., in 1986.
Today, Harpo is a formidable force in film and television production, as well as magazine
publishing and the Internet.
Since the 1990s, Oprah began to emphasize spiritual values, healthy living and self-help, and
her program became more popular than ever.

5. Dedicated her whole life to improving other people's lives.
She gives her best selflessly and doesnt expect anything in return when she does a good
cause.
Even after having she a tough childhood she still treats everyone with love and care.
She teaches us to pick ourselves up through hard times and to forgive.
She teaches us to believe, to believe in ourselves and in our dreams.
The way she encourages literacy with her book club.
The way she encourages health and fitness. She shows that women can be
billionaires!

6. The business press measures her wealth
in numerous superlatives:
- the highest-paid performer on
television,
-the richest self-made woman in America,
- and the richest African-American of the
20th century.
-More difficult to calculate is her
profound influence over the way people
around the world read, eat, exercise, feel
and think about themselves and the
world around them.
She appears on every list of the
world's leading opinion-makers, and
has been rightly called "the most
powerful woman in the world."