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Oprah Winfrey Is ‘Never Not Me’

By Aynslee Darmon.

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Oprah Winfrey is opening up about what it’s like to be Oprah all the time.

In addition to her stunning August cover of British Vogue, the mogul, 64, opens up about being herself at all times in an interview with the coveted fashion mag.

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Oprah admits she’s the same person on-and-off the camera: “I am Oprah and the Oprah that you see is the Oprah [that I am].”

“The beauty of my life is that from, I’d say, 32, 33 on, I figured out how to be myself completely on television, and all these years I have made a fortune, really, being myself,” the “A Wrinkle In Time” actress continues. “So I’m never not me, I’m never not the person you see.”

But, like everyone, Oprah explains that some days she’s “more open and warm than others.” And because of those days, she’s thankful for her greatest luxury, a private plane.

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“I was in the airport and I was just minding my own business and a woman came up and she said, ‘You’re not acting like you do on TV,”’ she recalls. “And I said, ‘What’s that?’ And she says, ‘Well, on TV you’re hugging everybody and you’re just sitting here you’re not hugging anyone.’ So if I’m in an airport, I’m not necessarily going around hugging people, but I’m always just myself.”

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