Maye Musk

The supermodel graces the cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue in a one-piece suit by Colombian designer Maygel Coronel on the beach in ...

I said, ‘Just order and I’ll have a taste.’ Sweets are my weakness,” she said. “I was so happy to get him away from space and rocket science and Tesla factories,” she said. At 63, she appeared with a fake pregnant belly and her natural gray hair on the 2011 cover of New York Magazine to portray women over 50 having children. I don’t have to color [it],” she said of embracing her signature silver mane. Maye has spoken about her humble beginnings as a single mom at age 31, struggling to provide for her three kids financially. It took a little convincing for Musk to put on a bikini, admitting she’s always been “strictly” a one-piece kind of gal. “I cut it short ,and it looked fabulous. “So now you know that I’m setting an example so women can walk freely in swimsuits and not worry about it.” I haven’t told my kids — I can’t tell anyone until Monday . . . [Elon] doesn’t even know I went to Belize.” She kept news of the shoot under wraps from her three kids, including Elon, who she joked would have broken the news on Twitter. “I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone. “It’s a high waist, so it tucked me in nicely. “I’ve been modeling for 50 years, and I wasn’t considered a ‘swimsuit model,’ but now Sports Illustrated has let me know that they have a wide diversity of swimsuit models.

The model and mother of Elon Musk is one of four women, including Kim Kardashian, Ciara and Yumi Nu, celebrated with their own Sports Illustrated Swimsuit ...

"She is an uncontainable force, and she’s the most fearless woman I’ve ever known." "I never thought I would be walking in New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week. I’ve been through the hard times, and now I’m living the life — I mean, I really am." But then I look at her again, still unstoppable, and I think, 'Not yet.'" "Who knew that in my late 60s and 70s, I would be booked because I’m Maye Musk and a model?" "I love the photos. I love the energy of the whole team.

Maye Musk, Elon Musk's 74-year-old model mom, stars on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2022 issue.

“I haven’t been asked to do anything to my face. “I’m happy with my aging. I really am living the best life ever, and I never expected it.” Musk began modeling at 15 while growing up in South Africa, but her career wouldn’t truly take off until around 2010, when she covered Time magazine in the nude. “I’m just so happy that people are actually booking me for talks on ageism and how to feel good about yourself at any age. I think it’s really going to change how women feel when they walk out in their swimsuits.”

2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover star Maye Musk has had an amazing, lengthy modeling career—and led something of a double life while doing so!

Musk considered modeling a part-time gig, continuing to work as a dietitian (her nutrition business is now in eight cities and three countries). She never told her clients that she was a model—until she had to. And I got my degree but people kept on wanting me to model, and I thought that was weird.” When she was told that model’s careers were done by age 18, she thought nothing of it, knowing she was off to university.

Model Maye Musk covered the 'Sports Illustrated' 2022 swimsuit issue at 74, making history as the oldest woman to pose for the cover.

She continued: “We need to change that around. “I got into my 60s, people were talking about aging and being scared of aging, and I’m saying, ‘Why are you scared of aging?’” she added. I mean I really am,” she told Sports Illustrated. “The photo is beautiful. “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,” she added. “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. “If I thought I could be a swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated, people would’ve locked me away as a crazy lady,” she told the magazine.