Martha Stewart reveals the secret to maintaining her incredibly youthful looks at 84 and admits she’s ‘not changing, just evolving’
Martha Stewart has given fans a unique insight into the rigorous daily routine that has helped her preserve her remarkably youthful looks well into her 80s.
The popular TV personality and businesswoman – America’s first self-made female billionaire – has become synonymous with entrepreneurial aptitude, professional versatility and hard graft after starting her career as a model in the 1950s.
But those attributes have been eclipsed by her ability to remain fresh, active and youthful at the age of 84, a time when most people are deep into retirement.
Appearing on US podcast Lipstick On The Rim, Stewart admitted the daily routine she relies upon to keep her mind and body thriving begins at an unconventional hour.
She said: ‘Typical day starts early; I wake up at 4:00am, 4:30am. I read the entire New York Times, I do all the puzzles, I do Letter Box, I do Tiles, I do all those sorts of games, it’s good for the brain.
‘Then I go to Pilates, or I go to the gym, and I used to do it at home – I have a beautiful gym at home – but I think going off of the property is better, and it’s not far, it’s five minutes.
Martha Stewart has given fans a unique insight into the rigorous daily routine that has helped her preserve her remarkably youthful looks well into her 80s
‘So I go to my Pilates teacher, and I go to Shaun the personal trainer, and then I come home and I have my green juice.’
Predominantly based in New York hamlet Katonah, Stewart also owns a sprawling 35,000-square-foot residence on rugged Mount Desert Island in coastal Maine – the former summer estate of tycoon Edsel Ford.
‘I grow all my vegetables,’ she told host Molly Sims of the juice she creates from her own natural ingredients.
‘So it’s my spinach, my parsley, my cucumbers, not the ginger – I don’t grow the ginger, but ginger’s in it – half an orange, with the peel, and lots of celery and celery leaves, and that’s the green juice.
‘It’s a fragrant, delicious juice, and it’s in a juicer, not an extractor, everything goes through.’
She added: ‘I also make my own yoghurt every week, and I have that with wheat germ, or I’ll have one egg, scrambled egg, and that’s breakfast.’
Stewart also admitted to cutting meat out of her diet after her daughter Alexis opted to become a vegetarian.
‘I eat fish, but not much meat. I don’t remember the last time I had meat,’ she said. ‘My daughter’s a vegetarian, my grandchildren are pescatarian, although the boys are now asking for steak when we go out.
Appearing on US podcast Lipstick On The Rim , Stewart admitted the daily routine she relies upon to keep her mind and body thriving begins at an unconventional hour
The TV personality revealed her day begins at ‘4:00am, 4:30am’ when she reads the entire New York Times and completes all of its daily puzzles
Remarkably, Stewart has shied away from most cosmetic surgery, including Botox – although she admits to having the skin freezing injections in her neck.
She said: ‘I like certain fillers, and I get Botox right here (points to her throat). But the main thing about skin, and the reason my skin is so good, is cleanliness.
‘I’m a fanatic about keeping my face clean. I clean it with an oil, at night, and a hot wash rag. I make sure every speck of makeup is taken off, and then my serum.’
Some five years in the making, Stewart recently launched a new beauty treatment with Elm Biosciences, and she insists it has been part of her daily routine since the day it was completed.
‘This is a beautiful serum. We worked five years on this. It’s beautifully packaged and I wanted something that would look nice in your bathroom.
‘Everybody says why is your skin so moist looking and nice. It’s because of stull like this, that we’ve been working so hard on.’
America’s first self-made female billionaire has become synonymous with entrepreneurial aptitude, professional versatility and hard graft after starting her career as a model (pictured at home in 1980)
‘I hate the word reinvention, I call it evolution. I mean, I’m not changing. I’m still that same person, I just evolve’ (Stewart is pictured at a Hollywood premiere in 1989)
She added: ‘Of the ten things you can do to age gracefully, nature probably one, communing with nature in every single way.
‘I hate the word reinvention, I call it evolution. I mean, I’m not changing. I’m still that same person, I just evolve.
‘The people I admire the most are the ones they’re now calling the super-agers, who are not retiring, who continue doing good things, who continue to evolve – not reinvent, but evolve, and that’s what I’m going after.’
