I’m on the west coast, so Oprah Winfrey‘s big surprise still hasn’t been revealed out here yet. Some assholes (aka news sites and people on Twitter) ruined the news for me already, and while I’m bummed I can’t watch her big reveal live, I know that some of you stuck at your offices are dying to have the news spoiled.
Click through if you’re ready to know Oprah’s big secret
Oprah has a half-sister!
People.com had the details on the talk show queen’s biological sissy:
Forty-seven years ago, when Oprah Winfrey was 9 years old and living with her father in Tennessee, her mother, Vernita Lee, became pregnant with a daughter who was given up for adoption. Winfrey had known nothing about it.
On The Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday, the talk show host revealed the family secret she had been hyping since last week, introducing her half-sister, Patricia, from Milwaukee.
“It was one of the greatest surprises of my life,” said Winfrey, who found out the news last October. “It left me speechless.”
Patricia was born in 1963 in Milwaukee and lived in a series of foster homes until the age of 7. She was then adopted, but said her childhood was “difficult” and she longed to be reunited with her birth mother, Winfrey says.
When Patricia was 17, she had a daughter, Aquarius, and then six years later son, Andre. She was unwed and as a single mom worked two jobs to care for her kids.
Well, congratulations to Patricia. While she once lived what sounds like the shittiest life ever, she’s now the sister of the world’s first self-made female billionaire. That has to be a pretty mind-blowing turn of events for both women, don’t you think?
One thing, though… If you were an average lady and you found out that you are made up of at least half of the same DNA as one of the most powerful people in the world, wouldn’t you kind of feel like shit? I mean, here’s hoping the free cashmere throws and fancy chocolates Patricia is undoubtedly being showered with distract her long enough so that she doesn’t realize that compared to her sister, she’s basically a failure*.
*We’re all basically failures compared to O, let’s face it.
Long story short – nobody cares.