Elon Musk’s mother and her busy life as a model at 74: all about Maye

Within the Musk clan there is not just one known person. Intoxication, the mother of the owner of Twitter and creator of Tesla, is a model, writer, nutritionist and businesswoman. And, as if that were not enough, earlier this year she made history by starring on the cover of the magazine Sports Illustrated being the oldest person to do it in a swimsuit.

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I was famous before Elon it was,” the 74-year-old woman told the magazine Vanity Fair. The truth is that she started in the world of fashion when she was 15 years old and since then she has not stopped.

He was born in Canada in 1948, fruit, along with his twin sister Kayeof the relationship of chiropractors Joshua Norman Haldeman y Winnifred Wyn Josephine Fletcher, but spent his childhood in South Africa. At the age of 21, she was a finalist for Miss South Africa, which made her career take off until she appeared on the cover of important magazines such as Time, Vogue y Elle. She has appeared in the music video of Haunted of Beyoncé and was the image of the CoverGirl cosmetics brand at 69 years old.

Its success is also transferred to the networks. On Instagram she has more than 600,000 followers, where she takes the opportunity to talk about empowerment for women over 70. And so she expresses it in what she calls “her favorite hashtag of hers”: # it’s wonderful to have74.

Something that marked her life was undoubtedly her marriage to Errol Musk, whom she married in 1970 while finishing her nutrition studies at university. Within three years they had three children: Elon, Kimbaly Tosca. In 1979, she divorced after several episodes of abuse by her husband. In her biography, Maye recounts how Errol was “physically, emotionally and financially manipulative and abusive” and that he “beat her” in the periods when she was not pregnant.

Apart from his career, if he is proud of anything, it is having paved the way for his children to become successful entrepreneurs. “I didn’t treat them like babies or scold them,” she declared in her book A woman, a plan: a life full of risks, beauty and success, where he explained that teaching them to be responsible was the key to their professional triumphs. Today, Elon is one of the richest men in the world, Kimbal is a chef and founder of The Kitchen Restaurant Group, and Tosca Musk has become a filmmaker.