✦Forbade her children from celebrating Christian holiday since 2005.
✦Joined forces with luxury goods maker Gucci to host a fundraising event to be held on February 6, 2007 with all proceeds to benefit UNICEF and the Raising Malawi charity, which she co-founded in 2006 (November 2007).
✦Chosen No. 4 in a poll on the World's Unsexiest Women conducted by men's magazine Maxim in October 2007.
✦Her rendition of Don McLean's "American Pie" was voted RetroCrush's #5 Worst Covered Songs in June 2007.
✦Penned a song titled "Hey You" for charity which was performed in Al Gore's Live Earth London concert on July 7, 2007.
