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Dec 2, 2015 · Oprah Winfrey has revealed the name she chose for the premature baby boy she lost when she was just 14 years old. The former talk show host opened up about her painful past when speaking at the...
May 26, 2023 · Oprah gave birth to a baby boy when she was just 14 years old. After several weeks in the hospital, the baby died, although the exact cause of the baby's death is not known. The news that Oprah had had a baby was first unveiled in 1990 when one of her relatives revealed the story.
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Winfrey hid her pregnancy for seven months until she had a premature birth. "I was so ashamed. I hid the pregnancy until my swollen ankles and belly gave me away," she said in her program Life Class. Her detachment also led her to keep the baby. "I saved that baby because I was so disassociated and still do feel such a disassociation. I never felt ...
After avoiding the detention home, Winfrey went to live with her father Vernon Winfrey. From then on, the Cecil B. DeMille awardee began to feel like she got a second chance in life. "From that moment forward, I felt like I had been somehow saved, that somebody up there recognized that I wasn't a bad girl," she remembered. "And here I was given ano...
As Winfrey became a famous talk show host, the secret started to haunt her again. Eventually, the whole world found out about it. A publication had paid her half-sister Patricia Lloyd — whom she described as a "drug-dependent, deeply disturbed individual." — to spill the story. Winfrey was afraid that it would ruin her career. "I carried the secret...
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Oct 27, 2020 · Winfrey revealed that during her pregnancy, she was full of such “pain and shame” that upon giving birth, she didn’t give her infant son a name.
Dec 3, 2015 · Winfrey was speaking at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday as part of her “An Evening With Oprah” tour and mentioned to the 15,000-person audience that she’d recently been...
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Dec 2, 2015 · Oprah Winfrey has finally named the baby son she had a teenager, who died just hours after birth. His name is Canaan. Oprah, now 61, said: “I did have a son. And I named him Canaan because Canaan means new land, new life.”
Dec 2, 2015 · The talk-show guru revealed during a live appearance Wednesday that she had symbolically chosen a name for the premature baby she lost when she was 14, the Herald Sun in Australia reports.
