Shakira Mebarak Ripoll is the fourth richest woman in music — after Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Céline Dion  — with an estimated fortune of $38 million. At her age, she could catch them, if not their estates.

What new news lies in this Shakira article, written in the Bahamas by Telegraph UK’s Julia Llewellyn Smith?

Well, I’m a Shakira novice, and I didn’t know her entire name.

This divine woman is our saint of Anne of Carversville, body and soul — hips and soul, I could say — but Shakira should only be envisoned with her mega-watt brain attached to her deeply sensual, She-Wolf body.

Remember, Saint Shakira is a Smart Sensuality woman. She is my good luck charm and I only hope that I can help her half as much as writing about her as helped me.

Julia wasn’t initially so enamored with Shakira, but she writes a nice piece of press by the finale.

“As she’s been famous in her native Colombia since the age of 13, I’d dismissed her as South America’s Britney Spears with an overexposed navel and a penchant for ridiculous lyrics … “

I like a woman who admits her prejudices.

Regarding Shakira’s Smart Sensuality brain, Smith says it’s a “mind of steel”. The metaphor is descriptive of Shakira’s disciplined approach to living.

Meat once a week, otherwise fish and vegetables. Exercise every day. Say no to certain foods. ‘You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice,’ Shakira advises those of us who can’t say “no” to opening the refrigerator door.