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*A lot of people have wondered why 64-year-old Oprah Winfrey never had any children. Madame Winfrey told actress Gwyneth Paltrow that she lacks the motherly instinct and says she would not have been good at mothering because she can’t communicate with anyone who cannot speak.
She confided this info in the first episode of Paltrow’s “The Goop” podcast. She added that she could never raise two babies like Paltrow has done because raising them would have been too frustrating.
“I don’t think I would have been a good mother for baby children, because I need you to talk to me, and I need you to tell me what’s wrong,” she said. “I can’t just figure it out. I knew this about myself.”
“I was always better with kids once they turned two-and-a-half, three, I had a real resonance with them,” Oprah also said. “Gayle (King) was like, ‘Don’t you love babies?’ I was like, ‘Oh, babies are fine.’ It didn’t feel like [having babies] was for me.”
Also, Oprah, who is currently promoting her new Disney film “A Wrinkle in Time,” insists she can be a very good friend to people in her inner circle.
“I am so supportive of whoever or whatever you want to do or be. I am just there for you.”
She added:
“If I am your friend (there’s) never a hint of jealousy,” she said. “And the same thing with my friend Gayle. I’ve actually modeled being a friend after the friend that Gayle has been to me. I want to be the same friend to everyone that she’s been to me, so that no matter what happens to you — even if I ain’t got no job and you got the best job — I am just so happy for you! I want my friends to soar.”
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Also of interest from the podcast is the conversation she and Paltrow had about Harvey Weinstein.
Winfrey said she was friendly with Weinstein in a professional capacity from the days of her eponymous talk show, but addressed accusations that she must have known of his allegedly long history of sexually predatory behavior toward female actors and other women, saying she simply had no idea and wasn’t really in that world of entertainment. But she did know that everyone dreaded getting a call from him.
“I was in Chicago, in my own little world, but what I knew about Harvey was that Harvey was a bully and that if Harvey’s on the phone, you didn’t want to take the call because you’re going to get bullied in some way,” Winfrey said.
While for her a call from Weinstein generally meant being pressured, in a way left undefined, to have certain people on her show, now Winfrey is left wondering why she even let herself be bullied at all.
“What I do question for myself is why I was willing to put up with a bullying thing?” Winfrey said. “I was willing to put up with, ‘OK I’ll take the call,’ ‘OK I’ll do that’…why am I willing to put up with an a–hole? Why we won’t tolerate other things, but you can throw phones and call people jerks or whatever and do all this nasty stuff.”
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