Step Away from the Mean Girls… …and say bye-bye to feeling bad about your looks. Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others. This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world.

"Lloyd was just the best" Winfrey would later recall. On the season premier of Winfrey's 13th season Roseanne Barr told Winfrey "you're the African Mother Goddess of us all" inspiring much enthusiasm from the studio audience. By the time Winfrey moved back in with Lee Lee had also given birth to a boy named Jeffrey Winfrey's half-brother who died of AIDS-related causes in 1989.

Sent to live with the man Oprah Winfrey calls her father a barber in Tennessee Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood saying Oprah Winfrey was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. She is also according to some assessments the most influential woman in the world.