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She grew up in a rural area on a farm in Mississippi. “It was here where she had a troubled adolescence in a small farming community, where she was sexually abused by a number of male relatives and friends of her mother.” (biography) Oprah also became pregnant at the age of 14. The child was born very prematurely and died soon after its birth. Oprah did not grow up in a middle-class home. Her mother was a single mother and also a teenage mom. After the baby died, she moved to Nashville to live with her