Woman wins US lottery of $758million and is now richer than Beyonce and Taylor Swift put together

Just imagine going from being an ordinary medical care centre worker to a multi-millionaire in a matter of seconds. This is exactly the situation 53-year-old Mavis Wanczyk found herself in.

Mavis’ random selection of lottery numbers meant she became the winner of the biggest single ticket for the Powerball jackpot ever.

My numbers were kind of basically random, like maybe with our birthdays, one from here, one from there, she said at the press conference on Thursday when she came forward to claim the largest single jackpot win in US history -- $758.7 million.

There's a thing between me and my mom and my stepfather and I have a friend, we all go out to dinner on a Friday night and we play Keno, and our number is four. I just happened to choose, and it worked to my advantage.

The mother of two said promptly quit her job of 32 years at a hospital.

I called and told them I would not be back, she said.

Mavis Wanczyk said she played the lottery as a "pipe dream," never believing that it would one day be possible for her to retire early from the Mercy Medical Center, where she has worked for decades but on Thursday that dream came true.

I thought it’s never going to me, it’s just a pipe dream I’ve always had, she said.

I'm going to go hide in my bed! She said when asked how she planned to celebrate.

She has the choice of taking the jackpot as an annuity spread over 30 years or a one-off cash lump sum of $480.5 million, depending on state taxes, elevating her way beyond the riches of megastars such as Kanye West and Leonardo DiCaprio. However, she did admit she’d have been ‘very happy’ with just the $1 million.

Wanczyk, who has a 31-year-old daughter and 26-year-old son, said she previously been "OK" financially and had yet to work out how to spend her millions, other than paying off the car she bought last year.

Mavis has had a tragic time lately, losing her firefighter husband William in a hit-and-run crash only last year.

The $758.7 million jackpot is Powerball's highest since a January 2016 world record of $1.6billion.