Media giant Oprah Winfrey has said that the fear of the great responsibility involved in bringing up children made her decide against having them.
This is despite the fact that she is said to be worth $3.5 Billion, earning, while reportedly earning $300m per year.
She has been engaged to her partner Stedman Graham in 1992 but they neither moved on to get married not decided to have kids, with the 65-year-old also telling ‘People Magazine’ that it was no getting married that really saved their relationship.
She said: “At one point in Chicago I had bought an additional apartment because I was thinking, ‘Well, if we get married, I’m going to need room for children.
According to her, she decided against having children because she witnessed “the depth of responsibility and sacrifice that is actually required to be a mother” during her years on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
“I realised, ‘Whoa, I’m talking to a lot of messed-up people, and they are messed up because they had mothers and fathers who were not aware of how serious that job is,'” Winfrey said.
“I don’t have the ability to compartmentalise the way I see other women do. It is why, throughout my years, I have had the highest regard for women who choose to be at home [with] their kids, because I don’t know how you do that all day long.
“Nobody gives women the credit they deserve.”
“No regrets” Oprah Winfrey says as she reveals why she chose not to have kids or get married after being engaged to Stedman Graham for 27 years.
“I used to think about this all the time, that I was working these 17-hour days, and so were my producers, and then I go home and I have my two dogs and I have Stedman, who’s letting me be who I need to be in the world.
“He’s never demanding anything from me like, ‘Where’s my breakfast? Where’s my dinner?’ Never any of that, which I believed would have changed had we married.”
