✦Challenged herself to become a vegan for 21 days in order to detox her body (May 2008).
✦Included in Time magazine's annual list of 100 Most Influential in May 2007.
✦Voted the "Model for Healthy Living" in a poll by healthy living brand Lime in March 2007.
✦Opened her second school for poor South African youth, the "Seven Fountains Primary School," on March 16, 2007.
✦Is the World's Richest Female Entertainer according to Forbes magazine's list of the "20 Richest Women In Entertainment", with an estimated worth of 1.5 billion dollars (January 2007).