10 Things You Didn't Know About Oprah Winfrey, The Future American President

The third richest self-made billionaire wore overalls made from potato sacks, which earned her the name "Sack Girl."

Oprah was born out of wedlock to a 20-year-old soldier and an 18-year-old housemaid.

Winfrey was fired from her first job as an anchor.

Shortly after studying speech communications and performing arts at Tennessee State University, Winfrey was offered a job as a co-anchor on Baltimore’s WJZ-TV. Seven and a half months in, Winfrey was given the boot and reportedly told by a producer she was 'unfit for television news.'

Oprah was raped as a nine-year-old child and molested again during her teens until she was 19.

As a child, she was welted by her grandmother until she bled and was stopped from crying out in pain.

Her parents had named her Orpah, after a biblical character from the Book of Ruth.

But the "P" and the "R" got switched. Biographers have described it as a paperwork error, but Winfrey has said that the people around her in Kosciusko, Miss., simply pronounced it wrong.

Her natural-born leader personality has been evident since young.

In High School, she was elected President of Student Council, with the slogan, "Vote for the Grand Ole Oprah."

She won several beauty pageants including Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville and Miss Black Tennessee.

Oprah's daytime talk show 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' became an instant success, making her one of the most influential people in the world.

The idea of casting Winfrey in "The Color Purple" came from a TV set in a Chicago hotel room in 1984.

Quincy Jones, co-producer of the film, was in Chicago to testify for Michael Jackson in a lawsuit over his song "The Girl Is Mine." While eating a room-service breakfast, Jones saw the talk show hosted by Winfrey, whom he already knew. He realized immediately that she should be Sofia.

She currently lives on "The Promised Land", her 42-acre estate with ocean and mountain views in Montecito, California.

The $14 million mansion is located in an area of Telluride called Mountain Village. To get there, one must take a 10-minute gondola ride up one side of a mountain and down the other.

She had a number of relationships before she finally settled down with Stedman Graham in 1986.

Winfrey has admitted to one drug-related love affair. On her show, she revealed that she smoked crack cocaine, but claims that she was “addicted to the man, not the drugs.” Randolph Cook has also come forward claiming that he and the talk show host had a six-month-long relationship in 1985 and would do drugs together.