How exactly does one get Oprah's attention from the back rows of the studio without resorting to tacky foam fingers or crying inconsolably or both?
Easy: plan to have your water break during a show taping! Even if it's weeks ahead of your due date! See, I told you it was easy.
It worked for Lori McCrindle from Toronto (*cough* whatcha doing having your baby in a country without universal health care, woman? *cough*) who attended Oprah's live show last Thursday.
Oh, I'm kidding and actually I need to cut Lori a whole pile of slack. She was only 27 weeks along when her water broke during the show's taping so she obviously didn't plan or even want that to happen. Honestly that must have been frightening beyond belief BUT I wouldn't be so glib if her little boy wasn't healthy. Her baby boy Justin came into the world weighing 2 pounds, 13 ounces.
And Oprah didn't give her a car or a baby seat (yet) BUT she did run 'off set to the ambulance which was taking McCrindle to a local hospital when she heard the news.' And to have Oprah acknowledge your existence could probably be used as a bargaining chip when dealing with the police, customs, Revenue Canada, IRS, and the Illuminati. Or so I hear.
But I'll bet the O is tad disappointed that Lori didn't name the child Harpo. Or Steadman. Or for that matter: Oprah.
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