Martha Helen Stewart is an American business magnate, television host, magazine publisher and an author. She was born on August 3, 1941 in New Jersey to a middle class family. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was a pharmaceutical sales person. Martha has learned a lot from her family. She learned gardening from her father, cooking and sewing from her mom, she learned the process of canning and preserving from her grandparents.
Martha Kostyra was a hard working and outstanding student. She was involved in other extracurricular activities as well. She started working as a model to help pay off her bills. She started college with the intension to study chemistry, but switched to arts, Architectural and European history. Martha got married to Andrew Stewart a law student, just after her sophomore year. She continued her partially successful modeling career after she left Barnard. In the meanwhile, Andrew was getting his law degree completed. A year later Martha returned with a double major in Architectural and European history. She continued her modeling career, appearing in magazines and advertisements until she gave birth to her daughter Alexis in 1965.
In 1967, Martha began a second career as a stockbroker. When a recession hit Wall Street, Stewart left the brokerage. She and her husband moved to Connecticut and she started a catering business. In only ten years the business had become a $1 million enterprise. In 1982 her first book, Martha Stewart's Entertaining, appeared. While her career prospered, her family life changed, and in 1989, Martha and Andrew Stewart divorced. In 1990, she started her own magazine, Martha Stewart Living, serving as Editor-in-Chief. Martha Stewart soon became a one-woman industry. Stewart signed an advertising and consulting contract with retailer Kmart. In 1997, she purchased all of the publishing, broadcasting, merchandise and licensing ventures bearing her name and consolidated them into a new company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) and served as Chairman, President and CEO.
In 2001, Ladies Home Journal named her the third most powerful woman in America. In the same year, she joined the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange, but resigned four months later, when she was accused of insider trading. Martha Stewart was brought to trial in the first months of 2004. But the jury found her guilty and she was in prison for five months.
After she came out of prison, Stewart immediately set about rebuilding her business. She began a new daily television program, The Martha Stewart Show. Within a year of her release, MSLO had returned to profitability. Martha Stewart created product lines for Home Depot, Sears, Macy's and Wal-Mart. Over the years, Martha Stewart has shown patience and good humor in the face of the criticism. Martha Stewart has had more influence on how Americans, eat, entertain, and decorate their homes and gardens than any one person in our history.
Martha Kostyra was a hard working and outstanding student. She was involved in other extracurricular activities as well. She started working as a model to help pay off her bills. She started college with the intension to study chemistry, but switched to arts, Architectural and European history. Martha got married to Andrew Stewart a law student, just after her sophomore year. She continued her partially successful modeling career after she left Barnard. In the meanwhile, Andrew was getting his law degree completed. A year later Martha returned with a double major in Architectural and European history. She continued her modeling career, appearing in magazines and advertisements until she gave birth to her daughter Alexis in 1965.
In 1967, Martha began a second career as a stockbroker. When a recession hit Wall Street, Stewart left the brokerage. She and her husband moved to Connecticut and she started a catering business. In only ten years the business had become a $1 million enterprise. In 1982 her first book, Martha Stewart's Entertaining, appeared. While her career prospered, her family life changed, and in 1989, Martha and Andrew Stewart divorced. In 1990, she started her own magazine, Martha Stewart Living, serving as Editor-in-Chief. Martha Stewart soon became a one-woman industry. Stewart signed an advertising and consulting contract with retailer Kmart. In 1997, she purchased all of the publishing, broadcasting, merchandise and licensing ventures bearing her name and consolidated them into a new company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) and served as Chairman, President and CEO.
In 2001, Ladies Home Journal named her the third most powerful woman in America. In the same year, she joined the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange, but resigned four months later, when she was accused of insider trading. Martha Stewart was brought to trial in the first months of 2004. But the jury found her guilty and she was in prison for five months.
After she came out of prison, Stewart immediately set about rebuilding her business. She began a new daily television program, The Martha Stewart Show. Within a year of her release, MSLO had returned to profitability. Martha Stewart created product lines for Home Depot, Sears, Macy's and Wal-Mart. Over the years, Martha Stewart has shown patience and good humor in the face of the criticism. Martha Stewart has had more influence on how Americans, eat, entertain, and decorate their homes and gardens than any one person in our history.
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