While Ellen Degeneres has accumulated an impressive $370 million, Oprah Winfrey has a net worth in the billions — $2.7 billion, to be exact. In addition to her talk show (which ran for 25 years), Winfrey earns money through her cable network OWN, her partnership with Weight Watchers, and a multi-year contract with Apple TV+, according to Forbes. Winfrey also owns her own magazine titled O, The Oprah Magazine, and has published a number of books.
Even so, $370 million isn't just small potatoes. Like Winfrey, DeGeneres is a self-made woman who's battled ups and downs throughout her career (via Insider). Shortly after coming out on her sitcom Ellen, DeGeneres said she stopped receiving work. "I was really depressed," DeGeneres told Dax Shepard in an interview for his Armchair Expert podcast (via Today). "And because of that, and because the show was canceled, I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of a job, I had nothing."
After voicing Dory in Finding Nemo and launching her daytime talk show, DeGeneres slowly rebuilt her career (via The Telegraph). "I can't believe that I was able to achieve what I achieved, lose it all and then get to this point in my life at 60 years old," DeGeneres told Shepard. "To start over at 45. Nobody starts over in this business at 45, much less a woman. I'm really grateful that I had that experience and it made me a stronger person."
