Oprah Winfrey continually proves that you can never have enough money, and more than anything, you can’t waste it!
In a recent interview, Oprah Winfrey said she brings her own avocados (she has an entire orchard in her backyard of avocados) wherever she travels. Reason? “I think it’s ridiculous to pay for avocados!”
The Billionaire Tv mogul said she travels with her own bread and avocados to wherever her journeys take her all around the world and finds it very normal by the way, to travel with her own avocados from her own farm.
“I will tell you several things, very normal. I travel with my own bread and I bring my own avocados,” she said, before adding, “I have an avocado orchard,” Oprah told Trevor Noah on the Daily Show.
According to the Hass Avocado Board, the average sales price of an avocado is around $1 (and a bit more for organic) …roughly Kshs 100. Please note, Oprah’s net worth is a whopping $2.9 billion, according to Forbes, and she owns multiple homes, including her primary home, a $52 million estate she calls, “The Promised Land.”
Must be nice. But then again, she is our favorite aunt so she can’t do no wrong. Next time you bump into Oprah, she might just shout, “You get an avocado! You get an avocado! You get an avocado! Everybody gets an avocado!”
Oprah is also thinking about building one of her successful schools in the States, just like the one she built in South Africa that has enjoyed success for over 10 years. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls – South Africa (OWLAG) is a boarding school for girls, grades 8-12 .
The school is a project begun by the American entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey in 2002, born out of a discussion she had with South African president Nelson Mandela in 2000. OWLAG opened in 2007 and its inaugural class of 72 girls graduated in 2011.
Inspired by her own disadvantaged childhood, Winfrey stated that she founded the Leadership Academy to provide educational and leadership opportunities for academically gifted girls from impoverished backgrounds in South Africa who exhibited leadership qualities for making a difference in the world. She wanted to help girls who grew up like her, “economically disadvantaged, but not poor in mind or spirit”.[