Everyone’s favourite business woman, Snoop Dog’s BFF and iconic cook Martha Stewart has made Sports Illustrated Swimsuit history. The 81-year-old was revealed as the oldest cover model in the publication’s history.
Sports Illustrated dubbed her the “OG of influencers”, with 99 books to her name, a lifestyle magazine of her own, a range of clothing and home products and multiple TV shows, that seems like a fair title. Editor-in-chief of the publication said of Martha: “Never in her life has she let her circumstances dictate her outcome,” Day says of Stewart. “She’s changed with the times—always one step ahead, it seems—to build a wide-reaching business empire.” Photographed by Ruven Afanador in the Dominican Republic, in a white swimsuit, Martha told the magazine “I don’t think about age very much, but I thought that this is kind of historic and that I better look really good.”
Taking to Instagram, and her four million followers, the cooking icon told fans “My motto has always been: ‘when you’re through changing, you’re through’, so I thought, why not be up for this opportunity of a lifetime?”
Adding that “I hope this cover inspires you to challenge yourself to try new things, no matter what stage of life you are in. Changing, evolving, and being fearless – those are all very good things, indeed.”
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Martha Stewart might not think about her age very much, and too right, but her unapologetic attitude and commitment to being herself is inspiring. She’s never let herself be put in a box, despite her path being a rocky one. In 2004 she was sentenced to five months in prison after she was found guilty on a number of charges related to an insider trading scandal. Since then, she has rebuilt her brand, starring in her own reality television show, expanding her food products and teaming up with rapper and friend Snoop Dogg in 2016 for a television series.