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Oprah Winfrey has given fans a rare insight into her childhood as she shared unseen pictures in the trailer for her new documentaryThe Hair Tales.

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Produced by Tracee Ellis Ross alongside Oprah, the series is a place "to gather stories of Black women that honor our identity, beauty, and humanity through the lens of our hair".

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To honor that Oprah used pictures from her childhood including one of her as a toddler in the late 1950s with her bangs curled into a tight style at the top of her head, and another of her in school in the early 1960s with two pigtail braids.

Oprah grew up in her father's hometown of Kosciusko, Mississippi in the American south before moving to Milwaukee with her mother, Vernita.

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