Oprah Winfrey: ‘I wouldn’t have been a good mom’

In an April issue preview of Good Housekeeping U.K., Oprah Winfrey opened up about her decision not to have children, saying that it was just not the path for her.

I wouldn’t have been a good mom for babies,” she said in the preview that was posted Friday. “I don’t have the patience. I have the patience for puppies, but that’s a quick stage!”

Instead, she said, she is focused on other initiatives, such as her Leadership Academy boarding school in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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“When people were pressuring me to get married and have children, I knew I was not going to be a person that ever regretted not having them, because I feel like I am a mother to the world’s children,” she explained. “Love knows no boundaries. It doesn’t matter if a child came from your womb or if you found that person at age 2, 10 or 20. If the love is real, the caring is pure and it comes from a good space, it works.”

This is consistent with what Winfrey has long said about starting a family. She expressed a similar sentiment in 2013, saying, “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.”

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