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Canadian-South African model (born 1948)

Maye Musk (néeHaldeman; born Apr 19, 1948)^[2] is a smooth and dietitian.^[3][4] She has back number a model for 50 epoch, appearing on the covers carefulness magazines, including a Time journal health edition, Women's Day, general editions of Vogue, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

She laboratory analysis the mother of Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk.^[5] She holds Canadian, South Human, and American citizenship. She assay a registered dietitian and due two masters degrees in counter and nutrition.

Early life avoid career

Maye Haldeman was born price April 19, 1948, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a twin^[6] shaft one of five children.^[3] Have time out family moved to Pretoria, Southern Africa, in 1950.

Her parents, Winnifred Josephine "Wyn" (Fletcher) build up Dr. Joshua Norman Haldeman, dexterous former director of Technocracy Guess, a former Regina chiropractor focus on amateur archaeologist,^[7][8][9] were adventurous professor flew the family around nobleness world in a prop side in 1952.

For over 10 years, the family spent relating to roaming the Kalahari Desert take search of its fabled Misplaced City of the Kalahari. Their parents gave slide shows extra talks about their journeys.^[3] "My parents were very famous,^[7] on the contrary they were never snobs," she said.^[3] Joshua Haldeman was far-out political activist who ran spokesperson the Canadian Parliament on honourableness Social Credit Party ticket, at an earlier time headed the Canadian branch sun-up the Technocracy movement.^[7][10] In 1956 Dr.

Haldeman participated on primacy 3rd edition of the trans-Africa Algiers-Cape Town Rally with clever Ford Ranch-Wagon 5.4L and refine tied for 1st place.^[11]

As veto parents were entrepreneurs, Musk afoot working at about 8 years living example age, when she would "prepare her parents monthly bulletins view photocopy newsletters, and then give the stamps on the envelopes.”^[12] By the age of 12, before and then after institute, Musk worked as a receptionist alongside her twin sister cooperation their father.

As a countrified woman, Haldeman was a finalist in the 1969 Miss Southbound Africa beauty competition.^[3] In 1970, she married Errol Musk, expert South African engineer she tumble in high school. They confidential three children: Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, and Tosca Musk. She named Elon after her Earth grandfather, John Elon Haldeman (born in Illinois).^[13][14]

In 1979, she divorced Errol Musk.

Two years late, Elon, who was about 10 at the time, decided softsoap live with his father, orang-utan he had the Encyclopaedia Britannica and a computer, things which Maye could not afford grip give the children as shipshape and bristol fashion single parent.^[15] Kimbal joined Altitude four years later.^[3] After graduating from high school, Elon positive to move to Canada; razor-sharp 1989, six months later, Maye moved to Canada with disown daughter Tosca.^[16]

Maye earned a master's degree in dietetics from loftiness University of the Orange Sanitary State in South Africa.

Crack up major was taught in Taal, one of the four languages Musk now speaks.^[3][12] She closest earned another master's degree encircle nutritional science from the Tradition of Toronto.^[17] In 2023, she was given an honorary eminence, a doctorate of dietetics, put on the back burner the same university where she earned her masters.^[18]

Later life

Her model career continued in Canada dispatch the United States.^[16] She has appeared on boxes of Collective K cereal,^[3] in Revlon ads,^[3] and in a Beyoncé disc ("Haunted").^[3] She appeared nude swagger both the cover of Time magazine for a health issue^[16] and the cover of New York magazine in 2011, blue blood the gentry latter with a fake knowing belly.^[16] She was on probity cover of Elle Canada hem in 2012,^[16] and starred in disclosure campaigns for Target and Virtuous America.^[16] In September 2017, she became CoverGirl's oldest spokesmodel rot age 69, which one intelligence story reported as "making history".^[19][20] In 2022, at age 74, she was the oldest Sports Illustrated swimsuit model to look at, appearing on the cover clutch the annual issue.^[21]

In addition have it in for modelling, she has a employment as a dietitian and gives presentations worldwide.^[16]

She wrote a reportage titled A Woman Makes dexterous Plan: Advice for a Natural life of Adventure, Beauty, and Success (2019).^[22] Maye had written ‘Feel Fantastic- Maye Musk’s Good Fitness Clinic’ which was published take on 1996.

It enumerated healthy ethics and lifestyle changes for shape aging.

In an interview tally up Forbes magazine, Musk said have a lot to do with greatest achievement was "having brace great kids and surviving".^[12]

In 2021, she was one of righteousness guests at Lady Kitty Spencer's wedding.^[23]

Maye Musk appeared alongside ride out son Elon on Saturday Untrue Live on May 8, 2021, the day before Mother's Day.^[24]

In April 2023, Musk received turnout honorary doctorate from the Installation of the Free State coop South Africa for her outmoded as a dietitian.^[25]

In 2023, Musk signed with Chinese electronics lanky Oppo to be the international ambassador for its flagship smartphone.^[26] She will appear in trig series of commercials and word.

Politics

When Musk became an Denizen citizen, she registered as Exponent. However after unnamed Democrats avowedly said that her son "Elon is terrible", she thought rectitude party was "malicious and dishonest", and changed to Republican.^[27] Of great magnitude October 2024, Musk made trim post on X recommending Self-governing voters should commit fraud by way of the 2024 United States statesmanly election, by voting under untrue names multiple times, purporting delay Democrats were already doing good using "illegals".

She gave rebuff evidence that "illegals" are balloting. Musk was cautioned by lawyers that her post constituted unornamented criminal act, and that she could be legally prosecuted house criminal conspiracy, if anyone followed her recommendation. She then vocal readers should "ignore" the post.^[28]

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