Oprah Winfrey was born in Mississippi to unwed teenage parents in 1954. After a difficult adolescence with her mother, she came under the supervision of her strict father in Ashville . When she turned 18, she won the miss black tennessee beauty pageant. The win led to a part time news position on a black radio station. In 1967, she moved to Baltimore to host a program called ‘People Are Talking’. After 8 years on the show, she was hired by Chicago TV station to do ‘AM Chicago’ which would eventually become ‘Oprah Winfrey Show’. Oprah’s popularity led to a role in the Steven Spielberg film ‘The Color Purple’ for which she earned an Academy Award nomination. By 1986, the Oprah Winfrey Show was syndicated on over 100 channels across the country. A year later, her top rated top show which was owned by her own production company Harpo was bringing in 125 million dollars a year. Belong to her impressive top rated show, what makes Oprah truly unique is the influence she has over her fans. When she started Oprah’s Book Club, just about every title she selected shot to the top of the best-seller list. She would appear on Time magazine’s most influential people list every year from 2004 through 2007. In 1999, the Oprah brand continued to grow as she co-founded oxygen media dedicated to programing for women and introduced O magazine. She became a billionaire and the richest self-made woman in America. The reason why she is respectable is that even though she grew up in hard environment she never despaired but always tried hard to achieve something. She always challenged to something new that other people didn’t. I think these challenges are really valuable cause if there is no challenge there is no development.