Martha Stewart

Marthe Stewart is an American entrepreneur and television personality. Martha Stewart is probably famous in the household for her recipes. But she was actually a model. Martha Helen Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on August 3, 1941. Before she was able to build her media empire and started focusing on domestic arts, which greatly increased her credit score, Stewart started modeling in her younger years to help pay for her tuition. According to the businesswoman, she was paid $50 an hour as a model, which was already a big amount during her day.

Stewart has even tried posing for Chanel in the early ’60s. After her modeling career ended, she founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. At the peak of her career, which also happened to be the peak of the dotcom bubble, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia had an explosive IPO. On the day her company went public, Martha Stewart became the first American self-made female billionaire ever. Stewart sold numerous books and even published a magazine. The businesswoman even started out a TV program Martha Stewart Living in 1993 until 2004 and Martha from 2005 to 2012.