I Don’t Regret Not Having Kids – Oprah Winfrey

“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 said in the April issue of Good Housekeeping UK while talking about her Leadership Academy for Girls.

“Love knows no boundaries,” she continued. “It doesn’t matter if a child came from your womb or if you found that person at age 1, 10 or 20. If the love is real, the caring is pure and it comes from a good space, it works.”

The 63-year-old media mogul didn’t even think she would have necessarily been a good mother.

“For me [the Leadership Academy] was perfect, because I didn’t want babies,” she said. “I don’t have the patience.”

When Winfrey was just a teenager, she gave birth to a baby boy, who died shortly afterwards. In 2015, she revealed that she’d chosen the name Canaan for her son.

The Weight Watchers spokeswoman has been in a relationship with Stedman Graham for over 30 years, but the two never married.