Like Gwyneth, Martha tells us she drinks ‘green juice’ every day, eats ‘very healthfully’ and uses expensive skin creams and serums. The (formerly) prissy queen of Good Taste pitches up on the red carpet these days in mini dresses which reveal yards of toned and tanned leg. She counts the rapper Snoop Dog a close buddy. The new version of Martha - post jail - has made some major adjustments. No wonder she’s ‘too busy’ to consider a TV reality dating show.īut - just like Gwyneth Paltrow, another lifestyle guru - Stewart is competing in an increasingly crowded marketplace. She’s cleverly selling a whole life-style, along with the necessary products from cooking to cleaning - as well as writing 99 books. Her stock briefly dipped following her release, then bounced back, as she hosted TV programmes showing how to garden, entertain and decorate our homes the Martha Stewart way. Stewart arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in February in Beverly Hillsīut this isn’t the first time Martha has made headlines.Īfter her shock prison sentence in 2005 for obstructing justice and lying to Federal investigators over stock trading, Martha Stewart cleverly repositioned herself. She has posed to get her name in the news and to reinvigorate her middle-class lifestyle business by doing something totally unexpected. Martha Stewart thinks these swimsuit pictures will empower other women - which is absolute rubbish. It’s her choice, although some might find it sad and a little bit demeaning. Madonna is the perfect example of another wealthy woman who isn’t happy with natural ageing and is prepared to take drastic measures to slow the process. But once you pass 50, there’s only one way your skin is going to head - and that’s downwards. Some people - usually the rich ones or the genetically blessed lucky few - do so with fewer wrinkles and saggy bits than the rest of us. Sports Illustrated’s headline might claim that Martha ‘Gives A Lesson in Ageless Living’ - but there’s no such thing as ageless. The message seems to be - you can look this good if you are prepared to dedicate every day to achieving this phoney perfection, and then be photographed with your body contorted into a flattering pose (easy if you’re a yoga devotee) and make sure you can afford a great dentist. A regime that only the very wealthy with plenty of time to spare could ever adopt. This isn’t ageing gracefully, it’s a boot camp approach to staving off normal sagging and wrinkling. As for surgical help, she admitted to using fillers ‘for a little line here and there’ and has used Botox in the past. She increased her Pilates classes to three times a week, had even more facials than usual as well as a full body wax. It sounds a tough regime - no bread, alcohol or pasta. Martha has revealed it took TWO WHOLE MONTHS to get ready for this photoshoot and morph from Domestic Goddess to Covergirl. We don’t seem to have moved on very far from those Wonderbra ads of yesteryear. But I can’t help feeling that shoving your cleavage towards a camera, no matter how great the skin tone might be, is a huge step backwards for womankind. The pictures are cleverly retouched, the framing is flattering, and Martha Stewart has amazing legs and a wonderful smile. This version of what it’s like to be 80 is far removed from most women’s experience. Now, Martha has made headlines around the world with a series of pictures in which she frolics on a beach in the Dominican Republic, brilliantly photographed by Ruven Afanador. Last year, Elon Musk’s mother Maya, graced the cover at the age of 74. Martha Stewart claims she’s breaking down barriers and challenging ageist stereotypes by posing in nine different swimsuits for Sports Illustrated, the oldest cover girl in the history of the magazine. Nudity has become the new marketing tool. At 81, the icon is the oldest woman to be featured on the cover of the annual magazine
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