Oprah Winfrey's honest conversation about ageing: 'Isn't as much time left'
Oprah Winfrey has spoken about ageing and knowing there "isn't as much time left" during an intimate interview with friend and fellow broadcaster Al Roker.
Roker, longtime weatherman on Today in the US, spoke to Oprah for his 70th birthday on August 20.
Winfrey turned 70 just a few months ahead of Roker on January 29.
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Winfrey turned 70 just a few months ahead of Roker on January 29. Today
She urged Roker not to "be scared" about getting older, adding that she has always lived in the moment and felt a deep sense of gratitude about every day she has.
"There is a sense of knowing that there isn't as much time left and I am at peace with that knowing," she explained.
"There's a sense of urgency for me about living well."
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'There's a sense of urgency for me about living well.' Today
Winfrey spoke of undergoing knee surgery in 2021 as she struggled to walk, saying it was the "best thing" she'd ever done.
"I had been becoming more and more debilitated to the point where it was hard to walk down even two steps just to get into the car. You know that pain," she told Roker, who has also had two knee replacement surgeries.
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Winfrey spoke of undergoing knee surgery in 2021 as she struggled to walk. Today
She said knee surgery was 'best thing' she'd ever done. Today
"When I finally went to the knee doctor and I said, 'I don't know, is it time?' He goes, 'It's time if you want to continue walking. You like walking? It's time,'" she recalled.
Winfrey said she had never been through surgery before but was "intimidated by it."
"The best thing I've ever done," she concluded. "I really felt like I've had a new opportunity to live inside my body in a way that I hadn't been able to for years because being overweight, and being overweight causing the knees to be even worse."
Winfrey said she feels she's "just aged into a form of myself 'that is wiser, that is certainly stronger, that is more vibrant and aware and conscious than I've ever been. I don't feel that my edges are softening."
'I don't feel that my edges are softening.' Getty
Winfrey confessed she never expected to live so long after living in poverty as a child.
"Under the circumstances that I was living when I was a little girl in Milwaukee on welfare with my mother and what I now know is that if I had stayed in those circumstances I probably wouldn't be here," she shared.
"I wouldn't be here healthy, strong and vibrant."
Winfrey with friend Gayle King. Getty Images for The Recording A
She described health as "the most vital part of your life" and praised Roker for having his health "in order" after he suffered a series of health struggles including prostate cancer in 2020.
He has used his platform to encourage others to have their prostates checked.
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