You get an Oprah flashback!
You get an Oprah flashback!
Everyone gets the ultimate Oprah Winfrey Flashbaaaaaack!
Every TV legend has to get their big break somewhere. For Oprah Winfrey, that somewhere was on a Chicago breakfast television show.
Back in 1983, Oprah Winfrey hadn’t yet become one of the most powerful women on the planet, so she had to send in an audition video like everyone else.
And Oprah’s staff just located it. Straight from 1983 we bring you… Oprah Winfrey’s audition.
WATCH:
Oprah was 30 at the time she filmed this at her friend’s house and now that she’s 60 years old, Oprah still reaches millions of viewers every day.
“Hi there,” she says in the video. “My name is Oprah Winfrey. Oprah spelled O-P-R-A-H.”
And that’s the last time she had to spell her name to anyone.
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You know what I love about Oprah? Is she was the most unlikely person to become successful, and not just successful but mega star successful, because she is everything conventional society conditions is to believe will not succeed, particularly when she first started out, black, chubby, average looking. I actually think she's beautiful but I mean in the eyes of conventional society she would be seen to be not attractive etc.
I think there is still no doubt that people who don't fit the white thin pretty mould do find it harder to succeed but it's great to see that some people do succeed against the odds and sometimes they succeed simply because they stand out as something different in this cookie cutter world. People like Ray Charles too, black, blind and an orphan (I think) if he had said when he was a kid that he was going to be rich and famous and that he had an amazing talent people would have laughed at him.
There was probably people in Oprah or Ray's childhood/school/neighbourhood who were conventionally attractive who everyone thought would go far and probably everyone overlooked Oprah and Ray.
There is so much pressure for young people to look a certain way and be a certain way that it's easy to forgot that some people succeed because they are different.
Of course it's going to be pretty rare that a blind, black kid will find fame and fortune but people can find success, even if it's on a small scale, like having a good job or loving relationship, it means that no matter how hard the odds are stacked against you it's possible to find happiness and or success. I just think though that for some people they might have to make a much bigger effort than the ones with a silver spoon in their mouth, which is of course unfair, but no matter how bad things are there is always a chance with a lot of hard work and a little but of luck amazing things may happen.