Despite being in a stable relationship with Stedman Graham for 30 years, the couple have chosen not to have kids. "I wouldn’t have been a good mom for babies,” Oprah told
Good Housekeeping. "I don’t have the patience. I have the patience for puppies, but that’s a quick stage."In 2013, she opened up to
The Hollywood Reporter that her career would come in the way of being a good mother:"
If I had kids, my kids would hate me...They would have ended up on the equivalent of
The Oprah Show talking about me;
because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them."
