2019年4月11日 · Before she was a mega mogul, talk show host and acclaimed actress, Oprah was voted “Most Popular Girl” at East Nashville High School and won a college scholarship from a speech competition....

2018年8月30日 · When Oprah Winfrey represented her home state of Tennessee in the Miss Black America pageant in 1971, she was part of a pioneering group of young women daring to define beauty on their own terms.

2021年12月14日 · Decades before she built her empire, Oprah Winfrey was the 17-year-old winner of a beauty pageant. Winfrey was crowned Miss Black Tennessee in the very early ’70s before she started her decades...

2014年9月15日 · Stone was a Pennsylvania beauty queen in the '70s before she was hired by Ford Modeling Agency only days after moving to the New York area. She made her name modeling and appearing on...

2024年4月4日 · Once Oprah Winfrey became comfortable on stage as a beauty queen, she made the leap to television at a very young age. Winfrey went on to become the first African American female news anchor in Nashville.

2015年3月26日 · At age 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. Oprah Winfrey’s family was so poor growing up that, as a child, Winfrey was teased at school for wearing dresses made of potato...

2024年11月28日 · Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry and Gal Gadot share more than just striking looks. Before becoming household names, they were regular beauty queens on the pageant circuit who took home a tiara (or...

Oprah Winfrey, a Tennessee State University dropout, left before graduating to pursue broadcasting jobs she had already lined up. Was Oprah a natural beauty queen? Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant when she was 17 years old. She also drew the attention of WVOL, a local black radio station, who hired her to do part-time news.

2013年12月13日 · Throughout the past 60 years of Miss Universe and Miss USA competitions, former beauty queens have gone on to have successful careers — journalists such as Oprah Winfrey and Diane Sawyer, Oscar...

2024年2月2日 · Oprah Winfrey’s triumph in the Miss Black Tennessee pageant served as a stepping stone towards her meteoric rise to international fame. Her captivating personality, coupled with her exceptional talent and strong work ethic, propelled her career to new heights.