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

“She Gradually Lost Any Consciousness Of People As People”

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Martha Stewart began taking on small catering gigs and teaching cooking classes out of her own kitchen, apart from her home improvement projects. In 1975, she and a college friend, Norma Collier, started a catering business together called Uncatered Affair. Despite the business’s success, the relationship that started it began to sour. Collier was one of the first to reveal that Stewart is actually a difficult person to work with. “She was a compassionate, good friend, [but] something happened—she gradually lost any consciousness of people as people,” Collier told People in 1995.

Martha’s ambitions would lead her down an impressive road that made her into the woman we know her as today as you’ll soon learn.