Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Biographer: Oprah Called Self Teen ‘Prostitute’
NBCToday Show ^ | April 12th 2010

Posted on 04/12/2010 7:58:17 AM PDT by Steelfish

Biographer: Oprah Called Self Teen ‘Prostitute’ Kelley: Winfrey’s unreleased autobiography detailed adolescent promiscuity

Kitty Kelley, author of a new unauthorized tell-all about Oprah Winfrey, said that the powerful talk-show host has many closely held secrets, and that she called herself a teen “prostitute” in a 1993 autobiography that she withheld from publication because it revealed too many of them.

In her 23-year-career as America’s most influential national talk-show host, there’s seemingly little that Oprah Winfrey hasn’t shared with her loyal viewers. From weight battles and romantic ups and downs to dark childhood secrets, the 56-year-old Winfrey has earned a reputation for candor about her own life.

But Kitty Kelley, the celebrity biographer who developed a reputation as a lightning rod for controversy with her tell-alls on Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra, says that Oprah’s life is nonetheless “choked with secrets,” and she digs them out in her new book, “Oprah: A Biography.” Speaking with Matt Lauer on TODAY Monday, Kelley said that in researching her book, she was afforded the opportunity to peruse Winfrey’s own 1993 autobiography, a book Oprah ultimately decided not to release — and that in it, she referred to herself as a “prostitute” during her troubled, wild adolescence.

(Excerpt) Read more at today.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: oprah; pornification; prostitute; sexworker; teenprostitue
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

1 posted on 04/12/2010 7:58:17 AM PDT by Steelfish
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

I don’t give a damn! Oprah is about to become a “has been”!


2 posted on 04/12/2010 8:02:26 AM PDT by WellyP
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

"New tell-all shocker reveals ALL the secrets Oprah doesn't want YOU to know! His other men - her other women -- The Big O reveals all in shocking new book!"

3 posted on 04/12/2010 8:04:33 AM PDT by KeyLargo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

I am so excited, I wee-weed!


4 posted on 04/12/2010 8:06:55 AM PDT by razorback-bert (So many questions, so few answers about Barry.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

She should be tried and imprisoned for her crimes against our nation, and her wealth siezed and redistributed in the form of a cash gift solely to the “producers” in America.


5 posted on 04/12/2010 8:08:37 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Tired of hearing about Tiger. Time for all you
Oprah customers to step forward. You know who
you are!


6 posted on 04/12/2010 8:08:52 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal Red Turf)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Oprah who?


7 posted on 04/12/2010 8:09:28 AM PDT by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish
Nothing has changed.

Just a bit older.

8 posted on 04/12/2010 8:11:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

I think Kristie Alley and Oprah would make a very large cute couple.


9 posted on 04/12/2010 8:14:01 AM PDT by TexasCajun
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Does Stedman know?


10 posted on 04/12/2010 8:16:06 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

I’m open to the argument that Oprah Winfrey has not been a perfect little angel. Seeing what she’s done to, for example, the Reagans, Kitty Kelley is not necessarily the most credible author to make that argument.


11 posted on 04/12/2010 8:18:58 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

I guess Steadman is not a STUD MAN


12 posted on 04/12/2010 8:28:18 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (this is a NO-BAMA zone)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Oprah was a teen prostitute?

Carrying around all those quarters must be why she has such broad shoulder.


13 posted on 04/12/2010 8:41:38 AM PDT by Venturer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Not like I am a fan of Oprah, but please double-check the article for the name of the moronic bitch that wrote this “biography”. Kitty Kelly is a nutjob.

Now I feel like 1/2 a man for having somewhat defended Oprah. I hate Monday.


14 posted on 04/12/2010 9:04:48 AM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

SO WHAT? Makes her story even more compelling..in America you can come from any background and become as successful as your dreams.


15 posted on 04/12/2010 9:15:32 AM PDT by Hildy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

What I really want to know is when is Obama going to cap her pay???


16 posted on 04/12/2010 9:17:15 AM PDT by justsaynomore
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Well, Debbie Schlussel does call her Ho’prah. I guess she wasn’t far from the truth at all!


17 posted on 04/12/2010 9:44:40 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

It’s sad that so many women in this nation look to her for guidance.


18 posted on 04/12/2010 9:46:24 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

I’m no fan of Oprah, but Kitty Kelly makes it up as she types it.


19 posted on 04/12/2010 9:49:00 AM PDT by dead
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Does that mean she was selling her Va Jay Jay?


20 posted on 04/12/2010 10:21:27 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson