Oprah Winfrey Reveals Why She Never Had Children: "My Kids Would Hate Me"

 

Winfrey also admitted she's never found the idea of parenthood particularly appealing—even when she was a little girl—and always had different dreams than her peers.
"Gayle [King, Winfrey's best friend and 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," she recalled. "While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King."
While Winfrey may not have children of her own, the star of Lee Daniels' The Butler dedicates a great deal of time to the students attending the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, the school which she opened in 2007 and to which she has contributed more than $100 million.