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self-made woman

noun as in self-made man

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Holmes' net worth was valued at $4.5bn at Theranos' peak, reportedly making her at the time America's richest self-made woman, but Forbes earlier this month reduced its estimate of her net worth to zero.

From BBC

In 2014, Forbes said she was the youngest self-made woman billionaire at 30.

They then show some footage with Greene declaring she believes the election was stolen and cut to Stahl and Greene wandering on the grounds of her palatial home in Georgia where Stahl's voiceover talks about her wealth, suggesting she's a self-made woman who ran the family construction business along with her husband.

From Salon

Olga Acevedo, the Puerto Rican protagonist of Gonzalez’s debut novel, is a self-made woman who plans weddings for New York’s high-maintenance elites.

John Shaw and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, who owns pharmaceutical firm Biocon and is considered to be India's wealthiest self-made woman, saw their assets fall by £446m to an estimated £2.496bn - putting them in third place.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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