--- title: Oprah on Finding the Perfect Bathtub description: The media mogul opened up about her driving desire to always be surrounded by nice bathtubs. canonical: https://time.com/4901569/oprah-on-bathtubs/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-15T17:36:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:32.807Z og:title: Here's Why Oprah Is Obsessed with Having the Perfect Bathtub og:description: "I major in bathtubs." og:url: https://time.com/4901569/oprah-on-bathtubs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1edef489ed590aa/6988d9cd196cf40dc0041783/oprah-portrait.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Lionsgate's "Boo! A Madea Halloween" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Why Oprah Is Obsessed with Having the Perfect Bathtub twitter:description: "I major in bathtubs." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1edef489ed590aa/6988d9cd196cf40dc0041783/oprah-portrait.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Oprah Just Got Very Deep About Her Passion for Finding the Perfect Bathtub  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 15, 2017 5:36 PM UTC  Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of Lionsgate's 'Boo! A Madea Halloween' on October 17, 2016 in Hollywood, California. Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of Lionsgate's 'Boo! A Madea Halloween' on October 17, 2016 in Hollywood, California.JB Lacroix—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 15, 2017 5:36 PM UTC Oprah loves many things: [bread](http://time.com/money/4194375/oprah-weight-watchers-stock/). Dogs. Books. [Juice machines](http://www.instyle.com/news/oprah-winfrey-favorite-juicer-giveaway). And, we now know, bathtubs. In a new [interview with _Vogue_](http://www.vogue.com/article/oprah-winfrey-vogue-september-issue-2017) for the magazine’s September issue, the media mogul opened up about her attempt to be the “Anthony Bourdain of spirituality” and her return to acting (soon, in [_A Wrinkle in Time_](http://time.com/4681003/oprah-margarita-reese-witherspoon/)). She also shared the backstory of her interest in finding just the right bathing vessel. “I major in bathtubs. I spend my time looking for the best possible bathtub a woman can buy,” she admitted, after the interviewer recalled Oprah had a tub at her home in Telluride molded to fit her body specifically. (This fixation is nothing new: back in 2012, she called [bathing her “hobby.”) ](http://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/news/g2295/oprah-winfrey-tv-network-own-1112/?slide=1) “And actually, Stedman’s \[Graham, her boyfriend\] never been in this one \[in California\]. When I was in Chicago, he would ask for permission: ‘Can I get in your tub?’ And I would say, ‘Mmmmmm. . . . OK.'” Looks like she’s even a bit territorial too. But it turns out there’s a reason for this obsession, and it goes back to her childhood. “It came from the fact that I was raised with my father in, like, an 1,100-square-foot house where we all shared the same tub,” she confessed. “And when I would go back home, after having been in hotels and seeing that there are nicer tubs in the world, and there’s that little tub with a ring around it, where Comet could no longer clean the ring around the tub—and it was my job to clean it… I vowed if I ever got my own place, I was going to get myself a good tub!” When Oprah vows to do something, as we know, she follows through. 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