Oprah Winfrey: If I had kids, my kids would have hated me CHICAGO, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Oprah Winfrey told the Hollywood Reporter she has no regrets about not having her own children. "If I had kids, my kids would hate me," the 59-year-old media mogul told the entertainment industry trade newspaper. 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. Winfrey earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination Wednesday for her work in the film "Lee Daniels' The Butler."