Top Earning Celebrity Moms 2011

Accord to Forbes if Beyonce’s baby was born today, she would rank third on our list of Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Moms. The pop star earned $35 million between May 2010 and May 2011.

Gisele Bundchen

2011 Earnings:$45 million

The model’s earnings helped rank her and husband Tom Brady as the highest paid celebrity couple with $76 million. The couple has one son.

Judge Judy Sheindlin

2011 Earnings: $45 million

Oprah may have taken up most of the daytime spotlight but Judge Judy has quietly been earning top-notch ratings for the past 15 years. Sheindlin and her husband have five children between them.

Danielle Steel

2011 Earnings: $35 million

The mother of five has been cranking out best sellers since 1973. At the age of 64 she released three novels this year alone.

Angelina Jolie

2011 Earnings:$30 million
Jolie is almost as well-known for her parenting as for her acting. Her six kids are tabloid regulars who travel the world with Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt.

Sarah Jessica Parker

2011 Earnings:$30 million
Parker and her husband, actor Matthew Broderick have a son James and twin girls who were born via a surrogate. She will next play a woman trying to juggle work and family in the comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It.

Reese Witherspoon

2011 Earnings:$28 million
Witherspoon had two children in her 20s at a time when most actresses are 100% focused on their careers. But motherhood hasn’t ever slowed her down. She won an Oscar in 2006 and has been a top earner ever since.

Jennifer Lopez

2011 Earnings:$25 million
Lopez’s family life has taken center stage just as her career is heating up due to her recent divorce from Marc Anthony. The former pair are parents to twins Emme and Max.

Janet Evanovich

2011 Earnings:$22 million
The author proves that you can be a best-selling author and a mother at the same time. She earns advances of up to $10 million per book.

Pink

2011 Earnings:$22 million
The singer gave birth to her first daughter, Willow, in June. Pink is reportedly taking a short break from the music business.

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[Source: FORBES]