Oprah Winfrey is undoubtedly one of the most successful women in the world, and though she has made many sacrifices in life, being pregnant wasn't one of them.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 59-year-old media mogul who recently nabbed a Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination for her role in Lee Daniels' The Butler opened up about her decision not to have children, adding that she doesn't regret it. 

"If I had kids, my kids would hate me," Winfrey told THR. "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 admitted that she never found the idea of being a mother thrilling as a child, but instead always dreamed of being an iconic figure. 

"Gayle [Winfrey's best friend and now a mother of two] was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade Home Ec class, was writing down her name and the names of her children," she recalled. "While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King."

Winfrey said though she is not a mother of her own biological children, she enjoys being a mother figure to the girls in her Leadership Academy for Girls, the school she opened in 2007. 

Winfrey has dated her longtime partner Stedman Graham for years and previously told Access Hollywood she would leave earth as a "never married" woman. 

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