Kathy Ireland covers Forbes magazine’s latest issue with the banner headline: SUPERMODEL SUPERMOGUL.
The former swimsuit icon, 48, outsold domestic diva Martha Stewart last year with an astounding $2 billion worth of licensed retail products.
According to Forbes, this makes Ireland the No. 1 richest “model-preneur” in the world. The net worth of her Kathy Ireland Worldwide company is $350 million.
She amassed her fortune by lending her name to a long list of products including home furnishings, clothing, wigs, workout videos and motivational books and audios.
Ireland has some advise for the newest breed of up-and-coming supermodels: “So many young women say, ‘I’m just going to see what happens.’ It’s so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.”
Kathy covered Sports Illustrated three times and was a featured model in the popular swimsuit issue yearly from 1984 to 1996.
Check out a couple of her famous covers below:
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