Child Prodigy's Life-Altering Update | Where Are They Now | Oprah Winfrey Network

thirteen-year-old James Charles Harris is Britain's youngest tycoon he's here along with his mom Kay and says it's always been a challenge she says keeping James occupied we're glad to have you join us where did you know James that you were smarter than most people well I mostly realized only a couple of weeks ago when I was on a documentary and they put me with the average child and then I saw the difference and it's actually the first time when I was in a school it was actually never the same but I was completely I couldn't believe it no and I really could see what actual people used to say well you're different and then I actually realized I was you started your own what entrepreneurial career when you were four yes by doing what well my mother and father came from London with with us and we went to a jumble sale and my mother and father were very poor so they wore clothes and you know I was I was there and then I started picking up pieces of China and put them in my room and it grew and grew and then I got a shop to put them in so you started like instinctively knowing what was valuable in terms of antiques that's right you did I heard that on a bag of old spoons that you purchase for less than 50 cents you profited how much I can't well I got so many things I think it was about 800 pounds but um papers always over exaggerate but I've yes I think it was about that yeah I heard that you had a 2,000 pound profit which is about 3500 American dollars so you spend 50 cents on something make 3500 I consider that a good deal hi oh hi viewers it's Lauren Harris here and it's wonderful to be seen in America and to explain about my life would be to say that my name is now Lauren and I'm a transgender woman and I've been through through it all and I'm here to tell the tale I was struggling with my identity in my gender more towards the age of 18 and didn't know who I was I felt suddenly trapped and a burning building and I needed to weigh it out when I became Lauren it wasn't good the press were very hard we had books were the windows we had death threats people didn't understand we had about five six years of transphobia and it was Phoenix in a house bit like a fishbowl since then people haven't seen me on my gender but whom I am that exchange with their valuations and it's a different particular world but I could easily get back involved with it but jewelry is more what I'm interested in now I sing I sang the first song I was born boy not a girl I could go back to birth but before I was on danke Shoen I'd say this is my advice to you as a 13 year old boy now you are good and it's all choice to do something now or to wait because I would have done it when I was 13 if I had the chance hi youtubers I'm excited to give you an update about our own YouTube channel now you can find new videos every day they're the kind of videos it'll make you look at life differently they may even make you laugh a little bit who doesn't need a daily dose of that so here's just a taste of some of what you'll see you

Channel: OWN

Views: 6,236,590

Rating: 4.0939817 out of 5

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Id: Lma7Lb6aMfs

Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 10 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Alexxdlr]

yikes.. the prodigy in you couldn't tell you, that your song choice was terrible.

[u/carrierael77]

So, in 91 was 11. That would mean she us about 35 now. Does not look 35 at all.

[u/sidus_3]

"I was born a boy, but now I'm a girl. I've done some things that would make your toes curl."

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[u/jvcinnyc]

The reveal is not shocking as even back in 1991 I can see the 80 year old woman he will one day become

[u/560768]

Not trying to be insensitive, but this honestly seems like a comedy sketch to me.

[u/oomio10]

nothing about that kid makes me think he was gifted in the least. just pretentious

[u/[deleted]]

This dude looks like Randall Weems from Recess.

[u/x777x777x]

Holy shit that song is terrible.