Oprah Explains Why She Never Wanted Children: ‘My Kids Would Hate Me’

Oprah Winfrey has devoted her entire life to becoming, well, Oprah, and she has no regrets about skipping marriage and children.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 59-year-old media mogul said, “If I had kids, my kids would hate me.”

“They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would’ve probably been them,” she told the magazine.

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“Gayle [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 shared of her best friend. “While she was having those kind of daydreams…