Media mogul and actress Oprah Winfrey will be 70 soon. In fact, she hits the big 7-0 on January 24, 2024, to be exact. With a television career that has spanned almost 50 years, one thing that can be noted is how much and how often her hairstyle has changed. Here are some of our favorite photos of Oprah wearing her hair over the past seven decades, even before she was famous.
#1 - In 1956 at just two years old with a normal typical toddler hairstyle:
#2 - Here she is again as a young child with pigtails:
#3 - She was reportedly 13 years old with this typical 1960s look:
#4 - This is her high school graduation picture in 1971 where she used a press and comb:
#5 - In the early 1970s working her first job in Nashville and also wearing an afro:
#6 - Here she is in 1983 during an audition for a Chicago morning show:
#7 - On the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1999 wearing a longer, straight style:
#8 - By 2004, she was wearing her hair shoulder-length and straight:
#9 - In 2006 wearing braids:
#10 - On one of the 2012 covers of O Magazine with an all-natural hairstyle that she says required no blow-drying or straightening:
