Oprah Pregnant At 14

Oprah Pregnant At 14 : Oprah Winfrey Lost A Baby At 14, Oprah Winfrey has stunned fans by revealing she lost a child when she was a young teenager.

The media mogul and talk show host tells all in the new issue of her namesake magazine, Oprah, admitting she was almost a mum at 14, after years of sexual abuse and “resulting promiscuity.”

Best pal and Oprah editor Gayle King says, “She didn’t really know who the father was of this child, and hid the pregnancy for a very long time.”

Oprah reveals the baby, which was born prematurely, died shortly after birth.

King adds, “It was a secret that she carried for many years because she was very ashamed.”

The media mogul felt she had to reveal all about her secret when an unnamed family member sold the story of Oprah’s lost child to US tabloid the National Enquirer.

King reveals her friend was so upset about the family betrayal, she spent a weekend sobbing in bed.

Oprah Winfrey says in the February issue of her magazine that she cried for three days when a relative told the National Enquirer that Winfrey became pregnant at 14 and lost the baby after birth.

Winfrey already had confirmed the Enquirer’s 1990 report that she got pregnant as a teenager, telling Parade magazine later that year that the baby was born prematurely and died shortly after birth. Her half-sister, Patricia Lloyd, sold the story to the tabloid, according to news reports at the time.

Winfrey, who did not name Lloyd in her column, wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine that the relative “sat in a room, told them the story of my hidden shame and left their offices $19,000 richer.”

“I felt devastated. Wounded. Betrayed. How could this person do this to me?” she wrote.

Winfrey now says she learned something from what she calls “that first betrayal.” Having the secret out was “liberating” and it allowed her to begin to heal from the sexual abuse she said she experienced as a girl.

Oprah Pregnant At 14 : She says she hasn’t let more recent betrayals in her life bother her as much, although they still feel like “a kick in the gut.”

Oprah has her excuses for her behavior, and would like sympathy and empathy for what she claims she went through, but does she deserve to be excused? I don’t think so.

Now Oprah Kicks Shawn Hornbeck in the gut. Oprah Winfrey just had Shawn Hornbeck, 15, the boy who was kidnapped at 11 years old, on her show in a nationally televised interview with his parents. Oprah asked Hornbeck’s parents, “Do you think he was sexually abused?” When I heard that his parents had Hornbeck on Oprah with no time to even psychologically deal with his trauma my impression was “that’s child abuse.” When I heard Oprah already started asking about sexual abuse with Shawn Hornbeck sitting right there in front of Oprah I WAS SHOCKED.