The model, dietician by profession and mother of three children – one of whom is richest man in the worldElon Musk-, Maye Musk is, at 74, the oldest model to appear on the cover of the magazine’s special swimsuit issue. Sports Illustrated. “If I said I’d be a swimsuit model for the Sports Illustratedpeople would hospitalize me for being crazy,” he joked in an interview. to sports magazine.
“I’m so excited that they’ve decided that even older women can wear swimsuits and look great. I think this is going to really change the way women feel when they go out in swimsuits. ” Sports Illustrated. As well in an interview with PeopleMaye Musk confesses that “I could never imagine something like that”.
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With the new cover, he hopes that women will change the way they look at their bodies, especially when they go to the beach. “When we go to the beach, we’re a bit embarrassed by our bodies, but the men are walking around there, looking awful, and they don’t care,” she notes. According to her, women should adopt a more relaxed posture and “not worry too much”.
And there’s nothing wrong with age, he continues. “I never thought age would be an issue, because as a dietitian and a scientist, it’s not”strengthens the Sports Illustrated, adding that this is his finest moment. Still, the path has not been easy, she says, admitting that she “has been through different stages in life where she has been rejected, insulted and looked down upon”. Now he has reached the stage where he is “the happiest he has ever been”. But why only now? The answer lies in the people you date. “If we mix with people who are cruel to us, who do bad things and we accept it, then they will suffer like me,” he warns.
Celebrate diversity
Maye Musk, born in Canada and educated in South Africa, has a long experience as a model. At 15, she was already working in the field and was a finalist in the Miss South Africa contest in 1969. She did, however, follow two master’s degrees in the field of nutrition, but never gave up her modeling career. In 2011, she appeared nude in the magazine’s health issue Weatherand at 69, she becomes the oldest spokesperson for the Cover Girl cosmetics brand. Four years earlier, he appeared in Beyoncé’s “Haunted” music video.
More recently, in 2019, wrote the book A woman makes a planwhere he reveals what he has learned from some of his experiences. Before success and fame, he learned to “live dangerously with care”, advice from your fatherremind him Sports Illustrated. As a child, for three weeks, I traveled with my family in the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. “Our father wanted us to know that you can live without much.”
Mother of billionaire Elon Musk, restaurant entrepreneur Kimbal Musk and film producer Tosca Musk, Maye has sought to raise her children as their father raised her. “I always grew up helping people and my kids saw that,” he continues in the interview with Sports Illustrated. The result is the pride you feel in your journey and in what your children have accomplished.
In this issue of the American magazine, Tosca Musk writes a text about her mother, entitled “The Unstoppable Force” (“an unstoppable force”, in free translation), in which she reveals that she has always seen her mother “do everything” and that always surprises her.
Maye Musk is one of four women to appear on the cover of Swimwear issue of Sports Illustrated, there were four different covers, but it stands out by surpassing the previous record of Kathy Jacobs, who at 57 posed for the magazine – without having made the cover. THE socialite socialite Kim Kardashian, 41, singer Ciara, 36, and model big size Yumi Nu, 25, babysits the mother of the Tesla Contractor and of SpaceX.
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Although different, all these women serve a common vision, from the point of view of MJ Day, editor of the special edition of the magazine: “We all deserve an opportunity to evolve. In this edition, We encourage readers to see these models as we see them: multifaceted, multitalented – and sultry as they do.The ultimate goal is to “celebrate these women, their evolution and the many dimensions of who they are,” not as the world labels them, but as “they see themselves,” he concludes.
Text edited by Barbara Wong