Oprah: ‘I’m probably the most content person [you've] met’

For those of you worrying about Oprah Winfrey and all the free time she must have, don’t fret, she’s just added a food line to her empire. Nobody makes me feel like more of a wastrel than Oprah. After recently joining 60 Minutes as a correspondent and getting ready to promote A Wrinkle in Time while running her media empire, Oprah decided to expand on her partnership with Weight Watchers to make her own food. Naturally, one of the first questions someone has when talking to The Majestic Ms. O is “when the do you rest?” only they say it a bit nicer like “how do you do it all?” And to be honest, what she said made sense.

Things are changing again in Oprah Winfrey’s world, and the outlook is 100 percent delicious.

“Guys, this is the best time of my life,” she told ET’S Kevin Frazier and Nancy O’Dell. ET sat down with the media mogul on Tuesday to talk about her latest business venture, a food line called O, That’s Good!, and she revealed her secret to staying calm.

“The reason why you’re always stressed is because you want this moment to be something that it’s not,” she said. “You just stop and you accept this moment for what it is. Just breathe right into that moment and it takes the anxiety and the pressure away of wanting this moment to be something it’s not. Just this moment, one moment at a time.” But Winfrey, 63, admits that it takes time to gain that understanding.

“It is a process. It is not just one thing,” she explained. “You don’t wake up one morning and you suddenly have it all together, but you are paying attention to your life. I really am in a really good space,” she added. ”I’m probably the most content person [you've] met.”

With that kind of calm and thoughtfulness, could politics be in Winfrey’s future? “That is just not going to happen,” she declared. “My strength is bringing people together, and my strength is connecting people to ideas. My strength is allowing people to see the best of themselves even in the worst of times and circumstances.”

“That is not my thing,” she continued. ”That would not be what I would be able to do well.”

[From ET]

I’m thinking about her comment about wanting this moment to be something that it’s not. I think she’s probably right but I can’t grasp it just yet. Like when she mentioned being late and not worrying about it, that removed me from the conversation. I get physically ill if I’m late. I’m not lauding that about myself, just that I’ve been that way all my life. Yes, I’m sure Oprah’s money and staff make it easier for her to live in some moments but I’m not sure how much. If I want to compare my life with hers, I don’t have as many people working for me but I also do a mere fraction of what she does minute to minute. But like she says, it takes time to reach her level of Zen – maybe I’m not there yet. I do get the contentment. My life is not anything I’d hoped for growing up but I’ve never been as content as I am today.

I like that she put the presidency rumors in context. Like I inferred in my last post, I think anyone considering taking over the White House right now should be courting Oprah to join their team. She’s a huge influencer. As for her food line, O, That’s Good!, her website says it’s not for sale yet. However, in these funny clips of her with Ellen DeGeneres shopping and cooking dinner for a random lady they picked up in the store, it shows a display in Gelson’s Supermarket. So I guess it will be out soon. I strongly advise not visiting her site if you are hungry. Just looking at her Broccoli Cheddar soup cause me to eat lunch at 9:30 this morning (it was a Weight Watchers frozen lunch so it would have been O approved.)