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Hindustan Times
7 hours ago
- Business
- Hindustan Times
World's youngest self-made female billionaire is a 30-year-old college dropout, beat Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Rihanna
For years, pop icon Taylor Swift has been the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. She reached the billionaire mark in 2023 at the age of 33and has held the record since then. But now, she has been unseated, and not by someone from the entertainment world. The new record-holder is a 30-year-old college dropout known as much for her self-confessed workaholism as for her hard-partying lifestyle. (Also read: World's richest influencer is a billionaire; donates all earnings, still richer than Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Shah Rukh) AI founder Lucy Guo has become the world's youngest self-made female billionaire at the age of 30. Forbes' list of America's Richest Self-Made Women, released on Wednesday, puts Lucy with a net worth of $1.3 billion. This happened after ScaleAI, the firm she co-founded with Alexandr Wang at the age of 21, has been valued at $25 billion in a new deal. According to the New York Post, Lucy is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she quickly picked up coding in middle school. She dropped out of Carnegie Mellon University as she clinched a $100,000 entrepreneurial scholarship bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel. She was fired from ScaleAI after disagreements with her co-founder, but has kept her 5% stake in the company, which has now made her a billionaire. Taylor Swift is one of the youngest female billionaires in the world. According to Forbes, the 35-year-old has a net worth of $1.6 billion as of June 2025. Barbadian musician Rihanna, 37, is also a billionaire with a net worth of $1 billion. Selena Gomez was reported to be a billionaire in September 2024. This would have made her the youngest self-made female billionaire at 32. But Forbes later revised her net worth to $700 million. Earlier, Forbes had called Kylie Jenner the youngest self-made billionaire when she reported breached the $1-billion mark in 2020 at the age of 2020. But like Selena, her billionaire status was revoked, too, given the financial irregularities with her businesses. Kylie has a reported net worth of $700 million now.
Extra.ie
a day ago
- Business
- Extra.ie
Inside Jonathan Anderson's remarkable rise
A Derry man has been appointed the new sole creative director of Dior, taking control of both the men's and women's collections as well as the accessory lines. Jonathan Anderson was born in Magerafelt in the Northern Ireland county in 1984. Here is everything you need to know about the Northern Irish man… Jonathan Anderson was born in Magerafelt in the Northern Ireland county in 1984. Pic:for The Met Museum/Vogue When he was 18 years old, Jonathan made the move to the United States to pursue a career in acting, however during his time at Juilliard School he became more interest in the art of costume design. On returning to Ireland, Jonathan got his first fashion job at a Brown Thomas store in Dublin, and later made the move to London where he graduated as part of the class of 2005 in London College of Fashion. The Derry native worked as a visual merchandiser with Prada before launching his own label, JW Anderson, in 2008. Jonathan Anderson worked as a visual merchandiser with Prada before launching his own label, JW Anderson, in 2008. Pic:JW Anderson was well received by critics and in 2012 secured a collaboration with fashion retailer, Topshop, called JW Anderson x Topshop. The line sold out within hours and led to a follow-up collaboration between the fashion label and shop in February 2013. A few months later in September 2013, LVMH — who own brands including Louis Vuitton and Moet — invested a minority state in JW Anderson. Jonathan was then appointed the new creative director for LOEWE. Earlier this year, Anderson stepped down from his role with LOEWE, giving room for him to be appointed as the artistic director of Dior menswear. This month, Jonathan has been appointed the sole creative director across the brand. One such iconic outfit that was a creation of Jonathan's was the red outfit Rihanna donned when she performed during half-time of the 2023 Super Bowl. Pic: REX Jonathan has dressed some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry including Beyoncé, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Craig and Zendaya. One such iconic outfit that was a creation of Jonathan's was the red outfit Rihanna donned when she performed during half-time of the 2023 Super Bowl. The performance double as the singer's chance to reveal she was expecting her second baby with rapper A$AP Rocky. The Barbadian superstar donned an all-red look for her half-time performance, with a perfect baby bump visible underneath the jumpsuit she was wearing. Anderson is the son of former rugby international, Willie Anderson, who represented Ireland from 1984 to 1990, and ex-school teacher Heather Buckley. He has one brother, Thomas, who followed their father into professional rugby. Thomas played as a flanker for Ulster and Connacht, before hanging up his boots in 2011. Jonathan divides his time across Paris and London, and is in a relationship with Catalan artist Pol Anglada, whose art the New Yorker previously said often appears on JW Anderson designs.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Rihanna Reveals She's Pregnant With Baby No. 3 With A$AP Rocky as She Arrives at the 2025 Met Gala
Rihanna revealed she is pregnant with baby No. 3 while heading to the 2025 Met Gala in a form-fitting outfit. The 'Diamonds' singer, 37, showed off her growing baby bump in photos obtained by People before arriving at the star-studded event, which was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, May 5. She later walked the red carpet several hours after the event started in a black tailored look and a large hat with her baby bump on full display. Rihanna is now expecting her third child with boyfriend A$AP Rocky (real name: Rakim Mayers). The couple currently share two sons, 2-year-old RZA Athelaston Mayers, born in May 2022, and 1-year-old Riot Rose Mayers, born in August 2023. A$Ap walked the red carpet earlier on in the night solo. The dress code for the 2025 Met Gala is "Tailored for You," which is a "nod to the exhibition's focus on suiting and menswear — from specific silhouettes to various fabrics and accessories — that is purposefully designed to both provide guidance and invite creative interpretation." Cochairs for this year's highly anticipated event include A$AP Rocky, 36, Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton and hitmaker Pharrell Williams, plus Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Before stealing the show at this year's event with her big news, Rihanna previously spoke about how much she is enjoying motherhood. "It makes me feel really cool to be a boy mom," she told E! News at Fenty Beauty's Soft'Lit Naturally Luminous Longwear Foundation launch in April 2024. "Like I get to be as casual and busted as I want to, but it also forces me to embrace the epic things about being a woman, and a female and all my femininity. I embrace it so much more now, like I wear pink." She added, "I go between wearing jerseys and like, 'I'm wearing a dress today! I'm the only one in this house who can do that right now.'" The Barbadian bombshell said she's really embraced her role at home and it's empowered her in other ways. "It just kind of highlights about being a woman," she shared. "Because I'm the one that can experience all of that in the house — giving birth to them, carrying them, being a partner with Rocky and running the household and the family. It's new territory, but it's empowering." A source told In Touch that RiRi is continuing to expand her empire after launching Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty, a lingerie line, noting that she is well on her way to doubling her billion-dollar fortune. "Rihanna takes a very serious, thoughtful approach to each of her investments, she doesn't just slap her name on her brands, she's heavily involved in every step from the design to the marketing and the products," the insider dished. "There's a reason everything she touches seems to turn to gold. She does thorough research and due diligence and puts in the hours," spilled the source, revealing Rihanna is serious about investing her time and energy into her products. "She has an incredible sense of judgment, and her ventures, like her perfume line, are performing incredibly well. She's careful to time her launches right to ensure things are successful, she starts slow and steady before diving into a new project. Her existing brands are thriving, and she's now moving into new territories."
Int'l Cricket Council
2 days ago
- Sport
- Int'l Cricket Council
England centurions enjoy Women's ODI rankings boost
It means the 31-year-old leaps to seventh in the rankings and a career-high 666 rating points, the second-highest ranked England batter behind Nat Sciver-Brunt (third, 726 rating points). Tammy Beaumont meanwhile enjoyed a two-spot bump of her own after also raising her bat, making 107 from 104 balls in an opening partnership of 222. Beaumont now stands in 11th (638) and 12 points behind Australian Ash Gardner who rounds out the top 10. Hayley Matthews' magic with the bat | WCWCQ 2025 Meanwhile, it was work with the ball that helped Hayley Matthews make a top-ten rankings jump, claiming 2/49 in her 10 overs in the same match. It meant the 27-year-old climbed two spots to seventh in the ODI bowling rankings (646), complementing her No.4 ranking in the batting and No.2 spot in the All-Rounder rankings, which she helped solidify with a knock of 48. Matthews' All-Rounder rating of 448 is a career-high, with Gardner (470) the only player above the Barbadian in the latest update. ODI cricket is the focus for a number of women's teams, with the Women's Cricket World Cup beginning in late September. Women's RankingsAmy JonesHayley MatthewsTammy BeaumontNews
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rihanna and the politics of the exposed pregnancy bump
In the not-too-distant past, being pregnant on the red-carpet meant wearing Amish-style dresses that concealed not only your tummy, but every inch of flesh. Now, the celebrity bump is more than just present: it is the gleaming, oiled main event. In this era of being Pregnant with a capital P, fabric is little more than a token gesture. Tops are cropped, skirts are low-slung and nobody is in any doubt that a baby is on the way. As evidenced by Rihanna, who was pictured at this year's Cannes Film Festival in an asymmetrical Brandon Maxwell dress with a thigh-high slit and most of the midriff missing. Yes, she seems to be saying, I am growing a person – but I still have better abs than you. The Barbadian superstar, who is currently pregnant with her third child, has made a point throughout each of her pregnancies of encouraging her bump to do metaphorical jazz hands in skimpy lingerie, barely-there dresses and glitter bralettes. Proving how a well-timed pregnancy reveal can boost your career, the superstar had one of the biggest moments of her professional life when she showed off the imminent arrival of her first child at the Super Bowl by performing in a red Loewe jumpsuit unbuttoned to the navel. At the time, she said to the now-head of British Vogue, Chioma Nnadi. 'I'm hoping that we were able to redefine what's considered 'decent' for pregnant women. My body is doing incredible things right now and I'm not going to be ashamed of that. This time should feel celebratory. Because why should you be hiding your pregnancy?' In celebrity-land, at least, it seems nobody is. In the last year, Hailey Bieber has bared her bump in an underwear shoot for W Magazine, Adwoa Aboah has worn a two-piece H&M number with eight inches of bare flesh for a premiere and Margot Robbie has been photographed on Lake Como accessorising her bump with a crop top. This is very much a millennial trend – a natural next step to the confident, body-conscious, overtly sexy dressing the generation has pioneered. But they can't lay claim to inventing the bared baby bump – that accolade belongs to Vanity Fair, which put a naked seven-month-pregnant Demi Moore on the cover in 1991, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. And while it doesn't seem particularly outrageous now, the image would shock and fascinate the world when it was released – which delighted then-editor Tina Brown, who later explained she was tired of any woman past the first trimester only getting head shots. 'Women need this, dammit,' she said. But whereas in the early 1990s this daring new way of celebrating pregnancy lived and died with the famous, in the 2020s, the trend has jumped to the real world. Grace Kapin, who co-founded the maternity brand Storq and lives in Brooklyn, has seen a stark change in the way women dress since she was last pregnant five years ago. (And yes, New York's ultra body-conscious, fashion-forward aesthetic is hardly representative of us all – but where they lead, global trends tend to follow.) 'There has been a transformation on the streets of New York and I honestly think it is down to the celebrities,' she says. 'Suddenly, there are bare bellies everywhere: women are rolling down the waistbands of their jeans and wearing short tank tops and barely buttoned shirts. This would have been considered sloppy or desperate before, but now it is peak style.' For Eliza, 31, who works in PR in London, feeling like she was able to bare a little skin made pregnancy dressing significantly easier. 'I remember my mum being quite shocked when I met her last summer at eight months pregnant wearing a low-slung wrap skirt with a chunk of my belly exposed,' says Eliza. 'She thought it was too much, but it made me feel good and it meant I could keep wearing my own clothes for much longer.' Eliza was mostly relieved not to be confined to the tent-like pieces her mother had worn in the late 1980s. 'At first, I tried the roomy dresses and tops that looked cool and oversized before I got pregnant but I quickly realised I looked huge,' she says. 'I think it is because there is something so wholesome about being pregnant that you look pretty boring fast unless you do something a bit unexpected, like show some skin.' Gracie Egan, a creative consultant in London who is currently six-months pregnant agrees. 'It is so empowering to see beautiful strong working mothers like Rihanna and Sienna Miller embracing and showcasing their pregnancies. They push boundaries by wearing bold, daring outfits which contradict traditional ideas of how a pregnant woman should 'dress'.' And yet for many women, pregnancy is less a time of glorious fecundity and more one difficult slog to the finish line – and being expected to look sexy and glamorous while growing a person can feel like yet another pressure. 'Honestly, I have never felt less attractive than I did when I was pregnant,' says Jemima, 36, who had her first baby in 2023. 'Throughout the first trimester I felt sick any time I wasn't eating, but all I wanted was bland food like plain cheese on toast. I put on so much weight that I moved up two dress sizes before I even started to show. And as the pregnancy went on, it felt like my body was just holding onto every calorie it could. And don't even get me started on the bloating.' Jemima was eight months pregnant when Miller attended the September 2023 launch of Vogue World with her second trimester baby bump protruding out of a puffball skirt and crop top by Schiaparelli. The one-time boho queen immediately went viral on social media and appeared on the front page of multiple national newspapers. Soon after that, Miller was featured on the cover of Vogue in a very small pair of pants and a jumper. 'It sounds ridiculous but I burst into tears when endless pictures of her appeared on my Instagram feed,' says Jemima. 'She looked so slender and sexy and I felt like an absolute house and only wanted to wear my husband's shirts and tracksuits to cover up as much as I could. I felt like there was something wrong with me.' Pip Durell, the founder of cult shirting company With Nothing Underneath, was pregnant at the same time as Miller and also remembers it well. 'I definitely thought Sienna looked so cool, but I also thought, 'I could never'. I very much believe that you should let your bump out if you want to, but for me it is about choice and I knew I wanted to try and stay true to my own personal style of oversized shirts and jeans. Pregnancy is a time when everything is changing; it was important to me to recognise my own wardrobe.' I too was pregnant in 2023, and I reasoned that if I didn't wear crop tops in normal life, why would I start now? As for Miller, I understand how difficult these comparisons can be as I vividly remember her appearing on a red carpet when both our babies were a few months old: she was slim, vivacious and glowing, while I was a husk of a human, barely surviving on a few hours sleep a night. It's no wonder then, that all this can feel more fraught than it should. Millennials are probably lucky not to be confined to the same Princess Diana floral smocks our mothers were, and to have far more freedom to dress the way we want or to even bare some skin if we feel like it. But I wonder if we have also lost something. Pregnancy used to offer a bit of a break from the usual fashion rules – and from the need to look cool, or stylish, or sexy. Now, the bump is fast becoming so fashionable that the pressure is on to make the most of it. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
