“She is confident in her own skin. She’s dealt with her weight issues publicly for years—who can forget the size 10 Calvin Klein jeans episode? She’s not ashamed of her journey and is now in a place where she is healthy, happy and whole. That, after all, is much more important than her jeans size.” —Nicole Marie Melton
“From the Oscar’s to the Emmy’s, the White House to South Africa where she recently attended Nelson Mandela’s funeral, Oprah has extended her reach like no other Black woman in our recent history.” —Yolanda Sangweni, ESSENCE.com Entertainment Editor
No one has perfected her second act quite like Lady O. Months after ending her daytime talk show in 2011, she launched her own cable network, which broke even in 2013. She also starred in the box-office smash The Butler, for which she earned a SAG Award nomination. Most recently, she signed on to produce the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma. We can’t imagine what her 60th decade will bring.
She’s not afraid to poke fun at herself as she did when she showed her “dark side” on Jimmy Kimmel.