Maye Musk - The "superhero" mother behind the success of billionaire billionaire Elon Musk

Hà HàSep 09, 2021 at 13:49

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Elon Musk is a world famous South African inventor, businessman and billionaire. He is best known as the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal.

However, few people know that the person behind the resounding success of Elon is the hard work of Mrs. Maye Musk. She is also behind the success of two other children, film director Tosca Musk and restaurant entrepreneur Kimbal Musk.

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At the age of 73, Maye Musk is still a sought-after model and "runs the show" regularly. This is not uncommon in the fashion industry, but Mrs. Maye is still an exception because her seductive, salty and sharp beauty still has to make many girls admire. Maye Musk's luxurious and aristocratic beauty has been featured on Virgin America's promotional campaign, the cover of New York magazine or Beyonce's Haunted MV.

Childhood adventure life and modeling career

Maye Musk, born in 1948, is of Canadian descent but immigrated to South Africa with her parents on a private jet. According to the New York Times, in 1952, when she was only 4 years old, she flew 22,000 miles around the world with her parents. Growing up, Maye and her family roamed the Kalahari Desert in search of the "Lost City". It was also through these adventurous parents that she found her confidence to pursue a career in the fashion world.

She fell in love with a modeling career at the age of 15. Even Maye Musk attended Miss South Africa and reached the final round, although she did not achieve the highest position, but her image has also been recognized by many people. Welcoming and inviting. Her modeling career was on the rise, but suddenly at the age of 21, she left the limelight and married Errol Musk, an engineer. The two have three beautiful children together.

Her marriage to Mr. Errol did not last long, after nearly 10 years of marriage, Maye and Errol divorced in 1979. At the age of 31, Maye Musk became a single mother raising 3 young children. After the divorce, she was penniless even though Errol's family was wealthy.

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Dark times in Maye Musk's life

In 1989, Maye Musk brought her family from South Africa to Toronto. This was also the most difficult time in Maye's life. There was a time when she had to work 5 jobs at the same time to earn money to raise her children: from working part-time at the grocery store and laundry, as a research officer for the University of Toronto, teaching at the nutrition school to working as a nurse. sample. Maye once told the Huffington Post: "After my divorce, I struggled to make ends meet and raise three kids. Poverty makes you work hard."

Perhaps for each member of the Musk family, no one can forget that dark time. When Maye was 41 years old, modeling was no longer "hot", she had to work hard to earn rent and school fees for her children in many different ways. During this time, her family did not even have money to buy meat for dinner.

At that time, a customer of Maye, the owner of a cattle slaughterhouse, sympathized with her plight and decided to provide her family with a huge chunk of meat every month. Mrs. Maye will cut the meat into 4 pieces to eat in 4 weeks.

Not to mention, Maye is too busy with work that she can't go on a date or meet another man. "If we split the bill, I know my kids might go without food that week," she said. Meanwhile, her children also do their part to support the family. Tosca worked at a high-end grocery store while in school, and Maye Musk helped Elon get a job at Microsoft.

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Success and life at the age of seventy years old

Along with extraordinary efforts, Maye Musk's family finally got through the most difficult time. She led her family to success: An empire named Elon Musk, an owner of the famous Kimbal Musk restaurant chain, and Tosca Musk - a television producer with many prestigious awards.

Today, Maye Musk still maintains a healthy diet, partly to stay fit and partly to maintain longevity. "The secret to a long life is to eat well," says Maye. At the age of 73, she is still full of energy and youthful even though her hair has turned white. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Maye Musk said: "I will continue to work if people want to hire me. I have no plans to retire. When I go to shoot, young models are very excited to be hired. meet me. It shows that they too can have a long and successful career."

When deciding to publish the book A Woman Makes a plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty and Success, Maya Musk said that a woman does not control everything that happens in her life, but can live the life she wants. at any age. However, all they have to do is plan.

"Having a plan doesn't mean everything will go right. Having a plan means that when things don't go as planned, you have to make a different plan," she shares in the book. In the book, Mrs. Maye Musk wants to share her life's experience, which contains the philosophies drawn in hardships about career (the harder you work, the luckier), family (let the person you love) love goes its own way), health (there's no magic potion) and adventure (always creating space for exploration, but always ready to take on anything.

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According to her, living a careful risky life will definitely bring a woman many lessons and a positive inspiration as well as an optimistic spirit. She also says in the book: "You don't always have to do what is expected of you. You can go your own way. I learned this as a kid. young and used throughout adult life.

Expressing her feelings about the book, Karlie Kloss, an American model, said: "I have long admired Maye Musk both as a model and as a woman. Uncle has inspired many people throughout his life. His career and his invaluable philosophies and views are evident on every page of this book."

Designer Diane Von Furstenberg also shared: "Warm, sincere without hypocrisy, Living a carefully adventurous life filled with profound views and humor with reasonable content, gives the reader a great read. The hard-won advice of a lifetime. Maye Musk is a responsible woman with the knowledge that life is full of surprises and full mastery of life."

Looking at Maye Musk, a beauty with a beauty at her peak, no one can imagine that her life has gone through ups and downs. Despite being a slim woman, she overcame hardships alone and raised three adult children. It is a greatness and extraordinary that everyone admires.

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