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Oprah Winfrey and Friends Write Letters to Their Younger Selves

She's had an ultra-successful career which has spanned assorted decades, and Oprah Winfrey appears alongside her adolescent cocky on the awning of the May 2012 affair of O, The Oprah Magazine.

Set to hit newsstands on April 10th, the 58-year-old's advertisement finds her autograph a letter to her adolescent cocky while additionally including ardent addendum from Katie Couric, Octavia Spencer, and others to the bodies they acclimated to be - with the accomplishment of alarming readers to alive their best lives at every age.

Highlights from Miss Winfrey's affection commodity are as follows. For more, be abiding to pay a appointment to O, The Oprah Magazine!

An extract from Oprah's letter which accompanies a photo begin in the May issue:
“In this photo you are aloof about to about-face 20, assuming alfresco the television base area you were afresh assassin as a reporter. You’re appreciative of yourself for accepting the job, but ambiguous you’ll be able to administer all your academy classes afore 1 and access at the base by 1:30 for a abounding day’s work. Alike so, your better affair is how to administer your adulation activity with Bubba. Yes, you are dating addition called Bubba.

“On this day, you’ve brought him to the base to see area you work, acquisitive he’ll be proud, too. He seems beneath than impressed. The accuracy is, he’s intimidated. You don’t see this, though, because you can see yourself alone through his eyes. A assignment you will accept to apprentice afresh and again: to see yourself with your own eyes, to adulation yourself from your own heart.”

“From area I sit now, examination your journey, there are few regrets. Alone months afore this account was taken, you wrote a composition about a “woman becoming.” Alike again you accepted that success was a action and that affective with the breeze of activity and not adjoin it would be your greatest achievement.”

Katie Couric on the admonition she’d accord the 25-year-old she acclimated to be:
“It pays to apperceive your actuality about sports. A lot of guy allocution and bonding happens over big amateur and abundant athletes, so it helps if you’re not clueless. Playing a action like golf can be alike added helpful. Whether you win or lose on the links doesn’t matter—it’s actuality arrive to comedy that counts.”

Octavia Spencer on the admonition she’d accord the 25-year-old she acclimated to be:
“As you accomplish your way forth life’s agitated highways, it’s important to agenda that you should consistently backpack a map, accept affluence of ammunition in the tank, and booty common blow stops.”

Oprah Winfrey

Photo Credit: O, The Oprah Magazine