You have to work overtime these days to fix up a serving of lighthearted joy, or you could just follow Oprah on Instagram.

The celebrity mogul and 2020 presidential candidate closest thing America has to royalty recently shared a behind-the-scenes video from a magazine cover-shoot (she tends to be on the cover of O from time to time), and the results are guaranteed to make you grin, if not break out into a full-fledged smile.

First, here’s what the finished product tends to look like–a polished moment in time that graces grocery store checkout lines the world over:

And now, here’s how these “candid” action shots are achieved:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd8z4MTBnba/?hl=en&taken-by=oprahmagazine

To date, over 500k people have witnessed this moment of wonderment. We anticipate that number will rise.

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