Maye Musk revealed her current sleeping accommodations and what she considers “luxury.”
One might think that the glamorous mother of the world’s wealthiest man would live in a castle, a high-rise condo or even an ultra-secure compound with state-of-the-art security measures. But the truth is much different, according to The New York Post.
“Elon Musk is known for having no permanent residence, preferring to crash at friends’ places or in spartan temp lodgings,” the outlet reported. “His 78-year-old mother, Maye Musk, reveals that she’s also comfortable roughing it. She grew up camping in the Kalahari Desert and was couch-surfing until she was 60.”
Even today, she admits to sleeping in the Starbase garage when she visits her son’s SpaceX facility in Texas.
“If I have a couch or a mattress on the floor, then I’m good. Sleeping on the floor — there’s a roof over your head. That’s a luxury,” she told the outlet.
This outlook is truly the epitome of her philosophy toward life in general. In her memoir, “Timeless: The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age,” she offers her take on what it means to have a meaningful life.
“People suffer a lot in this world and they don’t think there’s a way out,” she explained. “They need to focus… how are you going to get out of this miserable situation?”
She describes the aftermath of leaving Elon’s father, whom she described as abusive in her book. (He has denied ever engaging in abusive behavior, for the record.)
“You can do without dinners and you can do without movies or fancy clothes or anything, as long as you don’t have somebody who’s nasty around, shouting at you all the time,” she said, explaining how she made things work as a single mother in South Africa. She took multiple jobs, including as a model, nutrition teacher and private dietician, to make ends meet.
In her 50s, she decided that her life needed more speed, so she opted to move to New York, where they “walk fast, they talk fast, they think fast.” Twenty years later, in her 70s, Maye Musk is still going.
“[H]er career as a model, dietitian, speaker and social media star has been on a rocket ship. In 2022, she was the oldest woman to appear in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and is currently a CoverGirl face,” The Post wrote.
Looking back on her life, she says that her seventies “have been my best. My best years, really.”
Despite being the mother of Elon Musk, she lives an incredibly relatable lifestyle for a high-profile person in New York.
“Maye, who lives in downtown NYC, spends four hours each morning building her social media profile and screening modeling and speaking opportunities. It’s work that someone of her stature would typically entrust to a team but she doesn’t have one because she prefers to do it herself,” the outlet revealed.
And it doesn’t look like retirement is anywhere her future, at least for now.
“I’m really having the best time.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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