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

Martha Decides She Can Do It On Her Own

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Stewart and Collier’s business partnership ended when Collier showed up to Stewart’s house one day with a finished catering project and she overheard Stewart telling her husband, “I’m more talented, and I deserve to take more money out of the business.” That was only the beginning of Stewart’s reputation as an overbearing, demanding, and verbally abusive colleague, which still really wouldn’t surface until later years since at this time, she was still cultivating her warm, homemaking image. Soon after their partnership ended, Stewart’s ambitions took her in a direction that led to her phenomenal success.