Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States on August 3rd, 1941 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 82, Martha Stewart biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Martha Stewart (née Kostyra, Polish) was born on August 3, 1941) and a television presenter. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's founder achieved success in a variety of industry ventures, including publishing, broadcasting, merchandising, and e-commerce. Martha Stewart Living, a book that ran from 1993 to 2004, Martha Stewart Living, and Martha Stewart Living, which spanned Martha Stewart Living magazine, has published many best-selling books, as well as two syndicated television shows: Martha Stewart Living, which spanned Martha Stewart Living, which ran from 1993 to 2012, was published.
Stewart was found guilty of criminal charges relating to the ImClone stock exchange in 2004; she spent five months in federal jail and was released in March 2005. There was rumors that the event would bring an end to her media empire, but Stewart began a comeback campaign and her business returned to profitability in 2006. Stewart returned to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's board in 2011 and then became chairwoman of the company again in 2012. Sequential Brands acquired the company in 2015.
Early life
Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on August 3, 1941. Martha Ruszkowski (née Ruszkowski; 1914–2007) is the second child born to parents Edward Kostyra (1912–1979) and Martha (née Ruszkowski; 1914–2007) and is of Polish descent. Both her parents were teachers, and her father was later a pharmacist turned into a pharmaceutical salesman. The family moved to Nutley, New Jersey, when Stewart was three years old. For her Catholic confirmation name, she used the word "Grace" instead.
When Stewart was ten years old, she served as the occasional babysitter for Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Gil McDougald's children. Mickey and Merlyn Mantle's four sons, whom Stewart followed and for whom she arranged birthday parties. She also started modeling. Stewart was seen in a Unilever television commercial at 15 years old. She continued to appear in television commercials and in magazines, including one of Tareyton's "Smokers would rather fight than switch." Cigarette advertisements. She supplemented her scholarship funding through "modeling jobs" at $50 per hour during her college years, which was a lot of money at the time. Chanel was one of her clients.
Stewart's mother taught her how to cook and sew. As she visited her grandparents' home in Buffalo, New York, she learned the techniques of canning and preserving. Her father had a passion for gardening and passed on a portion of his knowledge and expertise to his children. In addition, Stewart was involved in several extracurricular activities, including the school's newspaper and art club.
Stewart graduated from Nutley High School. She began attending Barnard College of Columbia University, intending to major in chemistry but later switched to art, history, and architecture. She did fashion modeling for Chanel to raise her college tuition to help pay her college tuition. She met Andrew Stewart, who earned his law degree at Yale Law School, during this period. They married in July 1961. She returned to Barnard a year after her marriage to earn a double major in history and architecture.
Personal life
She married Andrew Stewart, who then attended Yale Law School in 1961, when she was still a student. Alexis, the family's only child, was born in 1965. The couple divorced in 1990 after being separated in 1987. Martha Stewart dated Anthony Hopkins but decided against him after she saw The Silence of the Lambs. She said she was unable to avoid identifying Hopkins with Hannibal Lecter's character.
Stewart dated billionaire Charles Simonyi, who was a young employee of Microsoft and the head of the company's software group, on and off for 15 years. On her television show in 2007, she included a video of him as a space tourist aboard Soyuz. Around February 2008, they broke up.
Stewart is a huge animal enthusiast. Champion show Chow Chow dogs, French Bulldogs, Himalayan cats, a Fell Pony named Ben Chunch, and Friesian horses are among her pets. Since her daughter's curiosity was raised about the subject, Stewart no longer wears fur.
Martha Kostyra, Stewart's mother, died on November 16, 2007, at the age of 93. Kostyra, who had also been dubbed "Big Martha" by her family, had appeared on Martha Stewart Living several times.
Stewart lives in Katonah, a hamlet of Bedford, New York. She also owned a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) home on Mount Desert Island, Maine, known as 'Skylands,' the former summer home of automobile designer and tycoon Edsel Ford, with gardens planted by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen (1922).
In 2020, Jimmy Kimmel's appearance on the television show Finding Your Roots revealed that he and Stewart are cousins.
Career
In 1967, Martha Stewart began a second career as a stockbroker, her father-in-law's profession.
Meanwhile, Andrew Stewart founded a publishing house and served as chief executive of several others. Andrew and Martha Stewart moved to Westport, Connecticut, where they purchased and restored the 1805 farmhouse on Turkey Hill Road that would later become the model for the TV studio of Martha Stewart Living. During the project, Stewart's panache for restoring and decorating became apparent.
In 1976, Stewart started a catering business in her basement with a friend from her modeling days, Norma Collier. The venture quickly became successful but soured when Collier alleged that Stewart was difficult to work with, and was also taking catering jobs on the side. Stewart soon bought Collier's portion of the business. Stewart was also hired as the manager of a gourmet food store, the Market Basket, but after a disagreement with the owners at the mini-mall she was forced out and opened her own store.
Andrew had become the president of prominent New York City publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc. In 1977, he was responsible for releasing the English-language edition of The Secret Book of Gnomes series, by Dutch authors Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, which quickly became a blockbuster success and was on The New York Times Best Seller list. He contracted Stewart's company to cater the book release party, where Stewart was introduced to Alan Mirken, head of Crown Publishing Group.
Mirken was impressed by Stewart's talent as a chef and hostess and later contacted her to develop a cookbook, featuring recipes and photos from the parties that Stewart hosted. The result was her first book, Entertaining (December 13, 1982), ghostwritten by Elizabeth Hawes.
Following the success of Entertaining, Stewart released many more books under the Clarkson Potter publishing imprint, including Martha Stewart's Quick Cook (1983), Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres (1984), Martha Stewart's Pies & Tarts (1985), Weddings (1987), which was also ghostwritten by Elizabeth Hawes, The Wedding Planner (1988), Martha Stewart's Secrets for Entertaining (1988), Martha Stewart's Quick Cook Menus (1988), and Martha Stewart's Christmas (1989), among others. During this time, she also authored dozens of newspaper columns, magazine articles, and other pieces on homemaking, and made numerous television appearances on programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live.
Andrew and Martha Stewart separated in 1987 and divorced in 1990.
In 1990, Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, Martha Stewart Living, for which Stewart would serve as editor-in-chief. The first issue was released in late 1990 with an initial rate base of 250,000. Circulation would peak in 2002 at more than 2 million copies per issue.
In 1993, Stewart began a weekly half-hour television program, also called Martha Stewart Living, based on her magazine. The show expanded to weekdays in 1997 and later to a full hour show in 1999 with half-hour episodes on weekends, and ran until 2004. Stewart also became a frequent contributor to NBC's Today Show and later to CBS's The Early Show, and starred in several prime time holiday specials on the CBS network.
On the cover of their May 1995 issue, New York Magazine declared Stewart "the definitive American woman of our time".
In September 1997, with the assistance of business partner Sharon Patrick, Stewart was able to secure funding to purchase the various television, print, and merchandising ventures related to the Martha Stewart brand, and consolidate them into a new company, named Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO). Stewart served as chairwoman, president, and CEO of the new company and Patrick became Chief Operations Officer. By organizing all of the brand's assets under one roof, Stewart thought she could promote synergy and have greater control of the brand's direction through the business's activities. That same month, Stewart announced in Martha Stewart Living the launch of a companion website and a catalogue business, called Martha by Mail. The company also had a direct-to-consumer floral business.
On October 19, 1999, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MSO. The initial public offering was set at US$18 per share (equivalent to $29 in 2021), and rallied to US$38 (equivalent to $62 in 2021) by the end of trading, making Stewart a billionaire on paper and the first female self-made billionaire in the United States. The stock price slowly went down to $16 per share by February 2002. Stewart was then and continues to be the majority shareholder, commanding 96% control of voting power in the company.
In June 2022, Martha Stewart announced that she would be launching her first original podcast, entitled The Martha Stewart Podcast, in partnership with iHeart Radio. On June 15, 2022, Stewart shared that Snoop Dogg would be the guest on the first episode of podcast, which debuted on June 22, 2022.