Martha Stewart Is Not Quite The Homemaking Maven We Think She Is…

A New Family Prompted Her To Find A New Career

Martha Stewart via Business Insider

While in college, Martha met Yale law student Andrew Stewart, who would become her husband in 1961. A year after their marriage, Stewart returned to Barnard to finish her degree, eventually graduating with a double major in history and architectural history in 1963. Afterward, the Stewarts moved to New York City, where Martha continued to model while Andrew set the foundations for a law career. Stewart had to discontinue modeling upon the birth of her one and only daughter Alexis in 1965. Now having a child to support, Stewart began looking at other career fields and dabbled in fields that were completely unrelated to modeling.

Keep reading to see how Martha’s entrepreneurial spirit led her to where she is today… But what was it really like to work with her?