Having not come from a film background, she describes herself as a self-made woman.

She is, she said, "not just a young girl" anymore but a self-made woman.

In 2010, The Economist magazine ranked her 15th of the world's richest self-made women.

I'm the girl next door, a self-made woman who has been to hell and back a few times.

Forbes reported that in 2013, "11 of the 20 richest self-made women in the world are Chinese".

A self-made woman, she had very little formal school training.

She was one of the few self-made women in Britain.

Sibilance claims to be a self-made woman, but musically that's impossible.

Maxie is the ultimate self-made woman from what I've heard about her.

In pop as elsewhere, the grown-up, self-made woman is on her own.