I hope my 70 years are as good as hers


Elon Musk was revealed to have a total asset of $22.4 billion, which was once a hot search, and he was ranked 41st on the authoritative Bloomberg Billionaires list in the world.

Many people are not familiar with the name Elon Musk, but mention the founder of Tesla Motors and you should remember - but Tesla only accounts for about a third of his fortune.

He also owns a private space launch company called SpaceX, which specializes in the research and exploration of space technology, and accounts for about two-thirds of Elon's assets.

Last year, he sent his family's car into space, which will orbit the sun for a billion years, with the words "Made on Earth by humans" engraved on the inside.

Because of his dazzling experience, netizens have said that he is a real-life "Iron Man", just like Tony Stark in the Marvel universe. And Elon Musk did make a cameo in Iron Man 2.

But today it's not about him, it's about an even bigger character - his mother.

Single mom raising Iron Man on her own

For those who are familiar with Elon Musk, he grew up in a single-parent home with three children. Elon was raised by his mother, Maye Musk, from the age of nine.

It's not easy being a single mother and raising three kids. But Maye raised children while pursuing two master's degrees (in dietetics and nutrition), running her own nutrition consulting business, and moonlighting as a model.

After Elon graduated from high school, Maye moved her family from South Africa to Toronto. At first, the family had to live in a low-rent house, and Maye had to work five jobs to make ends meet. One of the first things he did when the economy improved was to buy a rug and a computer for his home so Elon could sit on the rug and study.

In the 1990s, Elon and his youngest son, Kimbol, founded Zip2, an electronic Yellow Pages company in Silicon Valley. To take care of her family, Maye flies from Toronto to Silicon Valley every week and uses all of her savings to fund her sons.

She even sold the company and moved to San Francisco to support their business.

Later, we should be more familiar with Elon Muck founded SpaceX and Tesla, his youngest son Kimbal Musk became The founder of The Kitchen, a chain of high-end restaurants in the United States, and his daughter Tosca became a famous Hollywood filmmaker and the boss of a film and television entertainment company.

With her children's careers on track, Maye decided to continue her passion for modeling.

This year, she turns 50.

In fact, Maye Musk was a pretty girl when she was young, she competed in the Miss South Africa beauty pageant at the age of 15, and then embarked on a career as a model. Because of good image, good temperament, shot a lot of advertisements, but later because of family reasons, and chose to suspend the model career.

After the children's career was stable, they decided to buy her a suite in California to live a leisurely life, but she decided to go to New York alone to struggle.

"New Yorkers talk fast, walk fast, talk fast, people like me," she said.

At the age of 60, she decided to keep her white hair as a personal feature, and the result was indeed the peak of her modeling career

Maye is a dietitian and is very careful about her diet, so she takes good care of her skin and figure. She has appeared in ads with other young supermodels such as Karlie Kloss and is always full of confidence.

Many people want to look like supermodels in commercials when they are young, but I think it is also great to be able to blossom with confidence like Maye at 70.

Age can be an excuse for stagnation, but in other words, it can also be your unique recognition, a precious gift after years of precipitation.

Recently, the septuagenarian Maye has taken on a new role: as a model for Salvatore Ferragamo's new BOXYZ bag.

Maye was joined by supermodels Aaliyah Hydes and Lina Chang, representing women from different generations, skin colors and backgrounds. Maye's interpretation highlights that BOXYZ is actually a bag with no age limit, and this elegant and eternal temperament coincides with Maye.

First, there is the most prominent "Gancino" clasp on BOXYZ, inspired by the wrought iron handle on the gate of the Palazzo Spini Feroni, a medieval castle that is also the headquarters of the Salvatore Ferragamo Group in Florence.

"Gancino" was created in the 1950s as a unique symbol of the brand and rose to fame in the 1980s.

This classic element is used in Salvatore Ferragamo's Lady D bag for Princess Diana, who is said to have more than 20 Lady D's in different colors and leather.

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