Oprah Winfrey happy not being mother

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Dec 12 2013 | 1:41 PM IST
Chat show queen Oprah Winfrey is happy with her decision of not having any more children.
The 59-year-old star gave birth to a baby boy prematurely when she was 14 but the baby died after a few weeks, reported Contactmusic.
"If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something (in my life) would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them," said Winfrey.
The 'Butler' actress was very ambitious compared to her childhood best friend Gayle King when they were younger.
"Gayle [now a mother of two] was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade home ec class, was writing down her name and the names of her children. While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King," she added.
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First Published: Dec 12 2013 | 1:41 PM IST

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