In 1976, she started a catering business, which she ran from the basement of her house. She and her husband moved to Westport, Connecticut, where they undertook the complete renovation of an 1805 farmhouse on Turkey Hill Road, a location familiar to viewers of her later television programs. When a recession hit Wall Street in 1973, Stewart left the brokerage. Meanwhile, Andrew Stewart founded a publishing house and served as chief executive of several others. In 1967, Martha Stewart began a second career as a stockbroker, her father-in-law’s profession. During her college years, Martha supplemented her Barnard scholarship money through “modeling jobs at $50 an hour - which was a lot of money at that time.” She went on to appear in television commercials and various magazines.
At the age of 15, Martha Kostyra (Martha Stewart) was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. After graduation, she continued a successful modeling career, appearing in print and television advertisements for Breck, Clairol, Lifebuoy soap and Tareyton cigarettes until her daughter, Alexis, was born in 1965. She took a year off from Barnard after their 1961 wedding but returned to graduate with a double major in history and architectural history. Just after her sophomore year, she married Andrew Stewart, a law student. She began her college career intending to study chemistry, but later switched to art, European history and architectural history. A straight-A student, she won a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City and worked as a model to help pay expenses. Edward Kostyra taught his daughter gardening when she was only three her mother taught her cooking and sewing her grandparents taught her to put up preserves, and she learned to make pies and cakes from a pair of retired bakers who lived next door.īy all accounts, Martha Kostyra was a hard-working, serious child. When Martha was three, the family moved to Nutley, New Jersey, where she grew up with four brothers and sisters in a close-knit Polish-American family defined by her father’s intense ambition for his children. Her parents, Martha and Edward Kostyra, were a schoolteacher and a pharmaceuticals salesman, respectively. In fact, she was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, a location known more for heavy industry than for rustic charm. Martha Stewart’s image as the personification of gracious living may lead some to imagine that she grew up in the sort of rural luxury pictured in her books and magazines.
AugMartha Kostyra, of Nutley, New Jersey, at the age 10.
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