Maye Musk

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Maye Musk
Maye Musk in 2015.jpg
Musk in 2015
Born
Maye Haldeman

(1948-04-19) April 19, 1948 (age 73)
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Occupation
Spouse(s)
Errol Musk
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(m. 1970; div. 1979)​
Children
RelativesLyndon Rive (nephew)
Modeling information
AgencyCreative Artists Agency

Maye Musk (née Haldeman; born April 19, 1948)[1] is a Canadian-South African model and dietitian.[2][3] Also the mother of Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, and Tosca Musk,[4] she has been a model for 50 years, appearing on the covers of magazines, including a Time magazine health edition, Women's Day, and Vogue. The New York Post asserted her self-earned fame by declaring she is "a star in her own right".[5]

Early life and career[]

Maye Haldeman was born on April 19, 1948 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a twin[6] and one of five children.[2] Her family moved to Pretoria, South Africa, in 1950. Her parents, Winnifred Josephine "Wyn" (Fletcher) and Dr. Joshua Norman Haldeman, a chiropractor and amateur archeologist,[7][8][9] were adventurous and flew the family around the world in a prop plane in 1952. For over ten years, the family would spend time roaming the Kalahari desert in search of its fabled Lost City of the Kalahari. Their parents gave slide shows and talks about their journeys.[2] "My parents were very famous,[7] but they were never snobs," she said.[2]

As a young woman, Haldeman was a finalist in the 1969 Miss South Africa beauty competition.[2] In 1970, she married Errol Musk, a South African engineer she met in high school. They had three children: Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. She named Elon after her American grandfather, John Elon Haldeman (born in Illinois).[10][11][12] Maye earned a master's degree in dietetics from the University of the Orange Free State in South Africa.[2] She later earned another master's degree in nutritional science from the University of Toronto.[13]

In 1979, she divorced Errol Musk. Two years later, Elon decided to live with his father. Kimbal joined Elon four years later.[2] After graduating high school, Elon decided to move to Canada; in 1989, six months later, Maye moved to Canada with her daughter Tosca.[5]

Later life[]

Maye Musk at Brain Bar 2019

Her modelling career continued in Canada and the United States.[5] She has appeared on boxes of Special K cereal,[2] in Revlon ads,[2] and in a Beyoncé video.[2] She appeared nude on the cover of Time magazine for a health issue[5] and also nude on the cover of New York magazine in 2011 with a fake pregnant belly.[5] She was on the cover of Elle Canada in 2012,[5] and starred in advertisement campaigns for Target and Virgin America.[5] In September 2017, she became CoverGirl's oldest spokesmodel at age 69, which one news story reported as "making history".[14][15] In 2021, she was signed by Creative Artists Agency.

In addition to modelling, she has a business as a dietitian and gives presentations worldwide.[5]

She wrote a memoir titled A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success (2019).[16]

In 2021, she was one of the guests at Lady Kitty Spencer's wedding. [17]

Maye Musk had a cameo on season 46 of Saturday Night Live on May 8, 2021 alongside Elon Musk.[18] The day before Mother's Day, Elon Musk joked that his mother's name is spelled like the month of May except with an "e" at the end.

References[]

  1. ^ "My 60th".
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Laura M. Holson (April 30, 2016). "At 68, Maye Musk, the Mother of Elon, Is Reclaiming the Spotlight". The New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  3. ^ Kathleen Hou (March 17, 2016). "Elon Musk's Mom Is a 67-Year-Old Model and Dietitian with Great Wellness Advice". New York. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  4. ^ "Meet Maye Musk, the glamorous model mother of billionaire Elon Musk". Business Insider. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Kirsten Fleming (May 2, 2016). "Elon Musk's model mom will have to wait for her Model 3". New York Post. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  6. ^ Fox, Emily Jane (October 21, 2015). "How Elon Musk's Mom (and her Twin Sister) Raised the First Family of Tech". The Hive. Vanity Fair. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Keating Jr., Joseph C. (September 1995). "Joshua N Haldeman, DC: the Canadian Years, 1926-1950". The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association. 39 (3). pp. 172–186. PMC 2485067.
  8. ^ Hall, Dana (April 11, 2014). "Rocket Man: The otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  9. ^ "Elon's Mother". www.elonmusk.info. Archived from the original on August 11, 2017. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  10. ^ Elon Musk at Montana Jobs Summit (published to YouTube on Nov 15, 2013)
  11. ^ John Elon Haldeman (1871 - 1909)
  12. ^ Before Elon Musk was thinking about Mars and electric cars, he was doing chores on a Saskatchewan farm, by the Regina Leader-Post (May 15, 2017)
  13. ^ Klebnikov, Sergei (July 31, 2018). "Inside the Fabulous Life of Elon's Mom Maye Musk, a Supermodel Nutritionist Who Spent Her Childhood Exploring the Kalahari Desert". Money. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  14. ^ "This 69-Year-Old Model Is the Newest Face Of Covergirl". September 27, 2017.
  15. ^ Mejia, Zameena (September 28, 2017). "Elon Musk's mom Maye Musk just made history by scoring this modeling gig".
  16. ^ Maye Musk (2019). A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success. Viking. ISBN 978-1984878502.
  17. ^ "The 8 most stylish guests at Lady Kitty Spencer's wedding". Telegraph.
  18. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCF8I_X1qKI

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