Later, Oprah moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey, permanently in 1968 after she became pregnant at age 14. She gave birth to a son, who died when he was just a week old.

Oprah Winfrey tearfully recalled the pain of struggling ... have been anything other than what she had," she said. Lee gave birth to Winfrey, her oldest child, as a teenager in 1954 in Mississippi.