After studying at Barnard College in the USA, she went to the financial street Wall Street in New York and became a stockbroker.
By that time, she had married Andrew Stewart, with whom she had had daughter Alexis.
But after several years as a stockbroker, Martha Stewart, who turns 80 on Tuesday, August 3, left Wall Street and started her own catering business.
In 1982, her first book, “Entertaining”, was published. Since then, several of these have followed suit – among them “Weddings”, and later came the magazine “Martha Stewart Weddings”.
In addition, she founded the business empire “Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia”.
But it has also been a career with scratches in the paint.
In 2004, she was convicted of lying and seeking to obstruct the investigation of her sale of shares in the bio-company ImClone Systems.
The sentence was five months ‘imprisonment, and in addition she had to serve five months’ house arrest and pay a fine, which at the time was equivalent to 180,000 kroner.
Facing Harper & b)’s Bazaar, she has previously described it as a “very serious event” in her life.
Although the businesswoman’s reputation had suffered a setback, her career continued.
Among other things, she has hosted the reality show “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart”, is the author of about 100 books, and is inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Martha Stewart divorced Andrew Stewart in 1990 and has not remarried.
Source: The Nordic Page