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‘I’M SICK OF THE SHAMING’

SHE’S spent a significant chunk of her life getting people to open up about themselves. Love lives, tragic events, drug habits, royal fallouts, big jobs, major disappointments – Oprah Winfrey has heard them all and prised out as many details as she can.

But the queen of talk TV isn’t only a great interviewer with a one-of-a-kind couch-side manner: she’s a sharer too. It’s always been part of her charm.

Her traumatic childhood, her often fraught relationship with her parents, her complex relationship with food – she’s delved into it all. She’s always managed to make us feel better about ourselves because she has her issues too.

Oprah often talks about her experiences on her

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