The World's Richest Moms Celebrate Mother's Day As Billionaires And Parents

The world's richest moms list makes up few on the Forbes Billionaire List, with  138 out of 1,426 on the list. The number becomes even smaller when you look only at female self-made billionaires; only 24 were included on the list this year.

One of the world's richest moms list members include Meg Whitman. She is the former eBay CEO and current CEO of Hewlett-Packard and has two sons. She manages some of the biggest companies on Wall Street, according to Yahoo.

"Her family is not a source of stress to her but a source of support," Erin Carlyle of Forbes told the Daily Ticker in an interview. "She has two sons who both went to Princeton like she did and I think for her family is something that keeps her grounded and helps her with her endeavors instead of holding her back." Still, Whitman's children have had their share of bad press.

When one of the world's richest moms was reached out about being a billionaire and a mother, she shunned the opportunity to talk about it. Fashion billionaire Tory Burch, who is worth around $1 billion, according to the Epoch Times, said that her "children are off limits," adding that "my personal life is off-limits."

Tory Burch, the founder of the eponymous fashion label did reveal some insight a year ago in an interview with the Daily Beast.

"As a woman in business, it's the number one issue I face," she told The Daily Beast in 2012. "It's about time management and putting my boys and my stepdaughters first. That said, it's hard and it's something I struggle with and talk to women about, because I hope women understand that they can be in the business world and be a mom. It's just a little more difficult and a matter of figuring it out."

Carlyle went into more detail about the world's richest moms and them juggling their corporate lives and their children. She pointed out that there are 3,300 people in the world who have a billionaire father, but only 305 with a billionaire mother.

"Burch is one of just 108 billionaire moms, by our count, and one of less than two dozen who made their fortunes on their own and didn't inherit wealth from their fathers, grandfathers, husbands or moms," Carlyle wrote in a blog.

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