Living The Oprah Life

In Chicago, 35-year-old actress Robyn Okrant (Lo) has started a blog called LivingOprah.com, recording her year-long efforts to live as Oprah would have her live. She watches the program, tracks what products Oprah says she “must” buy, she reads the magazines, makes the recipes, buys the Favorite Things, as recommended by Oprah Winfrey. The experiment, started on the first of January, has been expensive this year. By January 18, Lo was seeing evidence that Oprah’s advice at times conflicted with her own non-billionaire lifestyle. And by Early July, Lo estimates that she’s spent 440 hours and $1,600 so far following Oprah’s advice. When her rent increased, she and her husband moved to a cheaper apartment rather than threaten the project. Read more on her blog, and in Chicago Reader.