--- description: Sometimes, all you need to do is ask title: VIDEO: Oprah Gives Away Essence Cover Dress To Twitter Follower image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75607f53ab10710e/6986845c169ab066d5278218/oprah-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # VIDEO: Oprah Gives Away Essence Cover Dress To Twitter Follower by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 7, 2014 4:10 PM CUT  by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 7, 2014 4:10 PM CUT Oprah Winfrey is renowned for surprising her fans with cars, trips and gift bags, but this week the former talk-show queen gifted one of her Twitter followers with a designer dress she wore on a magazine cover. When Atlanta resident Brandi saw Oprah Winfrey on the [cover of Essence Magazine’s March issue](http://www.essence.com/2014/02/05/oprah-winfrey-chiwetel-ejiofor-forest-whitaker-michael-b-jordan-essence-hollywood/ "undefined"), she fell in love with O’s over-the-top gown. She Tweeted the media mogul asking if she could have it. And it turns out, ask and you shall receive. On Feb. 21, exactly one week after she first tweeted Winfrey, Brandi tweeted that the star’s dress was now in her hands. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/15711/video-oprah-gives-away-essence-cover-dress-to-twitter-follower/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/15711/video-oprah-gives-away-essence-cover-dress-to-twitter-follower/"},"headline":"VIDEO: Oprah Gives Away Essence Cover Dress To Twitter Follower","datePublished":"2014-03-07T16:10:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:35.539Z","description":"Sometimes, all you need to do is ask","url":"https://time.com/15711/video-oprah-gives-away-essence-cover-dress-to-twitter-follower/","keywords":["celebrities","Newsfeed","twitter","Oscars","Oprah Winfrey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75607f53ab10710e/6986845c169ab066d5278218/oprah-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75607f53ab10710e/6986845c169ab066d5278218/oprah-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Oprah 1280X720","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/15711/video-oprah-gives-away-essence-cover-dress-to-twitter-follower/","name":"VIDEO: Oprah Gives Away Essence Cover Dress To Twitter Follower"}}]}] ```