Elon Musk’s mother on raising kids, CoverGirl model contract and age diversity – ‘We’re not competition to men’
- Maye Musk explains how she let her three successful children follow their own passions and what is so important about the age 12
- The oldest CoverGirl model in history, she says women get neglected as they get older and thinks 50 per cent of CEOs and presidents should be women
In her book A Woman Makes a Plan, published last month, model Maye Musk, 71, the mother of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, is candid about starting her business as a single mother after divorcing her abusive husband. The supermodel and registered dietitian talks about how she raised her three children, who have all found tremendous success. The book also details her rise to stardom in the modelling world after many setbacks.
Musk sat down to discuss the lessons from her book.
So your book is called A Woman Makes A Plan but it talks about how plans are often sideswiped and you have to make a new plan. So what is it about the plan and not holding on to it too tightly?
Well, you do want to hold on to it tightly, because you’ve got this plan. It’s going to be great. And then, you know, all sorts of things get thrown at you and then you are miserable, and then you have to say, ‘Now I need to make another plan.’ And what my book says is that I stayed in miserable situations too long, so maybe you don’t have to.
And you talk about untraditional ways that you pushed your career forward when you were met with resistance. Can you talk about that?
