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Oprah Winfrey feared the "worst" after seeking an online diagnosis when she fell ill.

The 64-year-old media mogul turned to the Internet when the left side of her chin swelled up but was scared by the results she found when she searched for "swollen lymph gland causes".

She wrote in a story for O, The Oprah Magazine: "None of the results were good. For the next four hours, I thought the worst. Why would a neck suddenly swell? Maybe it wasn't sudden. Maybe whatever it was had been growing for days, or longer, and I only now noticed."

Oprah immediately booked a doctor's appointment, where she expected to be told she had a "terrible disease". She was stunned when she was given the real diagnosis and a simple solution to combat her symptoms.

She continued: "When I finally opened my mouth to say 'ahhh,' I was prepared for the doctor to say, 'I'm so sorry, Ms. Winfrey, you have. Insert terrible disease.'

"What she actually said was, 'I think your salivary glands are blocked. Go home, drink plenty of water, and try sucking on some lemons to stimulate your salivary ducts.' "

The Wrinkle in Time star was so stunned by the doctor's verdict, she went for a second opinion and received the same diagnosis.

Rita Ora is finally getting "very confident" in her skin. The Let You Love Me hitmaker says it "took her a while" to find her inner confidence as she was very self-conscious about her curves in the past, but she is learning to love her body now.

Speaking about her naked photo shoot for Clash magazine, she told Access Live: "I'm very confident in my skin. It took me a while to get to this point in my life. When I was younger, I was very conscious about me having, like, curves and being, like, a woman - I was, like, the first to mature in my class and I just felt really, like, shy. Now I'm at a point where I feel like I'm very confident in myself. It was very liberating. I did it more for me than for anyone else. I just feel like when I get, like, a little older and stuff, I'm gonna look back at it and be like, 'Wow, I like that I did that!'"

Meanwhile, Rita previously revealed social media has given a "powerful" platform to female pop stars.

Kanye West doesn't think he has bipolar disorder. The Bound 2 rapper who is married to Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Kim Kardashian West - believes he was just battling with "sleep deprivation" rather than the mental health disorder.

Speaking to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon, he said: "What I think is we don't need sentences, we need pardons. We need to talk to people. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I was connected with a neuropsychologist that works with the athletes in the NBA and NFL. He looked at my brain. I wasn't actually bipolar, I had sleep deprivation which can cause dementia 10 to 20 years from now when I wouldn't even remember my son's name."

However, the 41-year-old rapper who has North, five, Saint, two, and Chicago, eight months, with his wife Kim - previously revealed he has learnt to embrace his bipolar disorder.