Oprah struggles to change her own duvet during lockdown

By
Mikaela Wilkes
May 3, 2020
Oprah feels our duvet cover-changing pain. Photo: Oprah Instagram

Billionaires, they’re just like us – when a global pandemic and self-isolation forces them to do their own chores.

Even Oprah Winfrey is changing her own linens as she hunkers down in her US$50 million (AUD$77.19 million) Montecito estate amid the coronavirus pandemic.

According to Forbes, the media executive, talk show host and producer has a current net worth of about US$2.6 billion.

It may have been some time since she was last faced with what is possibly the most annoying chore in the house, which is of course, faffing around trying to get the duvet inner back into its cover.

Winfrey struggles for about a minute on a video posted on Instagram. She uses both hands in a lifted position and tries to stuff one corner that won’t quite go.

“Anyone else find it challenging getting a duvet inside a cover? There must be a method I’m missing,” she captioned the video.

Near the beginning of the month, the 66-year-old shared a video of herself prepping dinner without the assistance of her personal chef Raymond Weber. She did, however, have the assistance of a Jamie Oliver tutorial.

“This is the hard part,” she said making spaghetti carbonara for the first time, “the mixing part, I’m not doing the water part good.”

“My hat, my shirt, my sweats off to all the moms and dads out there cooking round the clock meals. God Bless y’all!” she captioned the post.

Winfrey is in lockdown with her longtime partner Stedman Graham and “daughters” Sade and Thando, who graduated from her girls’ boarding school in South Africa according to Oprah magazine.  She bought the 42-acre Montecito compound in 2001 and named it The Promised Land after a recurring motif in Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech.

A few days after the spaghetti attempt,  Winfrey posted a photo of a Jamie Oliver Singapore-style fried rice that “everybody in [her] house actually liked!”

Perhaps there is hope for the duvet next month.

This story originally appeared on stuff.co.nz 

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