Elon Musk’s mom has made history as Sports Illustrated’s oldest cover star, and she looks incredible.
The dietician-nutritionist, who also happens to be the Tesla CEO’s mom, is showing us all how it’s meant to be done.
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Now, Elon Musk is the complete embodiment of a classic eccentric billionaire…
Being the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineering Designer of not only Tesla but SpaceX too, he has an awful lot going for him.
As it currently stands, Tesla is the world’s leading electric car company…
With almost 500,000 vehicles being bought and distributed in 2020 alone. The company is pioneering the future of electric car travel with Musk as its CEO.
And then there’s Space X…
Space X became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft, as well as the first to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
And due to his accomplishments, Musk has cashed in a serious amount of money since starting his businesses…
Back in January 2021, according to the BBC, Musk finally became the richest man in the world, knocking Jeff Bezos out of 1st place.
Quite the achievement, I know!
However, the feud between Musk and Bezos had been ongoing all year, with the pair yo-yo-ing between 1st and 2nd place.
Well, until late last year…
Musk saw a jump of 4.9 percent for the stock price of Tesla at the start of the year – an increase that came just days after finishing the first trading session of the year where they saw an increase of 3.4 percent.
Musk’s net worth subsequently soared shortly after to a staggering $188 billion, as per Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
And with Jeff Bezos’ net worth standing at $187 billion, Elon Musk was ultimately placed as the world’s richest man.
Things just kept getting better for Musk, and as of September 7th, he was reportedly worth over $200 billion…
Making him the 3rd person in the world to ever reach that milestone, behind Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury brands Moët, Hennessy, and Louis Vuitton.
A great achievement for Musk!
And of course, he went about the news in the most typical “Elon Musk” way.
In response to the news, he simply tweeted, “How strange”…
Before adding: “Well back to work.”
Then, almost a month after beating Bezos and becoming the world’s richest man…
He secured his position in 1st place.
On October 25th, 2021, Musk left his competitors in the dust as he reportedly gained a further $36 million…
Taking him up to a whopping $269 billion according to Forbes.
However, despite being crowned the richest man in the world, it hasn’t all been sunshine and rainbows for the CEO…
In 2021 alone, he split from his long-time girlfriend Grimes, as well as having to pay up for some unpaid taxes due to unrealized gains in Tesla stock. So all in all, it was a choppy year.
Now, Elon really did make the headlines an awful lot last year.
And it was always in celebration of his success.
He started this year off right, too. The $11 billion in taxes he paid have definitely been a thing of the past for him because he almost tripled what he paid in 2021, and it was only the beginning of 2022.
How? You might ask…
It’s all down to his Tesla company.
In 2021, Tesla manufactured 936,000 vehicles, allowing for a rise in stock prices, as per LADbible.
And to put his riches into perspective…
By Musk paying $11 billion in taxes last year, he gave 0.0036 percent of his earnings away. Yep, it might make you want to cry yourself to sleep, but that’s the truth.
And recently, Musk has been showing us all just how wealthy he truly is…
By bidding $44 billion for Twitter, which he already had a 9% acquisition in.
Musk wrote in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Committee: “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
“However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”
Yep, that’s right, Musk met with Twitter executives to discuss the possibility of taking on the company.
As per the Wall Street Journal, he got financing for $46.5 billion in order to make it happen.
However, he’s recently put his bid on hold.
You might be wondering how one person can do all this, but it seems his mom has always believed he could achieve great things.
In an interview with CBS in 2021, she revealed that she knew her son would be destined for greatness from as young as 3-years-old.
She elaborated that all of her children discovered their passions pretty early on.
However, Maye Musk also told hosts Gayle King and Anthony Mason this: “At 3, I knew [Elon] was a genius but you still don’t know if he’s going to do great things because many geniuses just end up in a basement being a genius but not applying it.”
She continued talking about some experiences that defined his life, including the moment he developed a computer game when he was only twelve.
And then later, he went on to achieve even greater things.
“I was so excited when he started Zip2…”
“Because it just made life easier with door-to-door directions, and then newspapers could have a link that took you to a restaurant,” Maye recalled. “I know that’s common now, but that was highly unusual and people didn’t believe that’s possible. So that’s why I invested in that at the very beginning — although I didn’t have much money.”
She also added this:
“Then he thought the banking system needed some help, so he did PayPal. Then after that, he said, ‘Well, should he do space research or solar energy or electric cars?’ And I said, ‘Just choose one,’ and, of course, he didn’t listen to me.”
But it was precisely the fact that he took those risks that made him the man he is today.
And it seems as though success runs in the family.
As seventy-four-year-old Maye Musk has recently become the oldest cover star for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2022.
She appeared with model Yumi Nu, singer Ciara, and businesswoman Kim Kardashian.
The magazine caption describes her as a “legend in the modeling industry for more than five decades.”
Adding that she “embodies the idea that aging shouldn’t hold you back from pursuing your dreams.”
Maye opened up about the opportunity to People…
“My first reaction was, I could never dream up something like that because why would anyone have a 74-year-old on their cover, especially in a swimsuit,” she said.
“I do think it’s going to make women feel more comfortable in their seventies when they swim, as well as women in their twenties and thirties.”
“When women go to the beach, we’re kind of shy about our bodies, but men will walk around, looking terrible, and they don’t care,” she continued. “I think we have to not care that much!”
She shared that he was apprehensive at first, but “Everybody was polite, kind, considerate, caring, so I felt very comfortable in my swimsuit,” she said.
Adding that “once you’ve done your first shot, you’re fine with all the others because they give you so much confidence about looking good in a swimsuit.”
