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Was Elon Musk’s mother a model?

In case one distracting Musk wasn't enough.

Elon Musk has been an exhausting, unnecessary presence in the news for far too long now, and it’s not going to stop any time soon.

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Now that he’s firmly secured to Trump’s backside — or maybe it’s the other way around — Musk is set to occupy the news cycle incessantly for at least the next four years. Or until he and Trump suffer an extremely messy, violently public breakup.

As a result of Musk’s Maye Musk.

Did Maye Musk ever model?

It’s an extremely niche question about a woman whose connection to pop culture is thoroughly tenuous, but as Elon Musk’s star rises, so too does his mother’s. As a result, queries about Maye Musk have been sweeping the web in recent weeks, with the Musk matriarch’s history of modeling turning out to be a particularly persistent sticking point.

Maye is a gorgeous woman at 76 years old, so it’s not hard to imagine how eye-catching she was a few decades back. It’s not just her good looks — or her famous son — that she’s known for, either. Maye is a nutritionist and health advocate, as well as an author and, yes, a model. She’s been working as a model for decades, but Maye — unlike many working models — actually found her greatest success in her later years.

An advocate against ageism, Maye made a name for herself as a silver-haired fox dripping with opulence, and it allowed her to maintain an identity outside of her mega-famous son. She’s been at it for years now, and continues to work as a model to this day. She still puts out head-turning shots at 76 years old, but her career in the field starter a good six decades back, when she was only 15.

Maye was plenty popular as a young model, but it wasn’t until she stopped dying her hair and embraced her natural aging that Maye’s career truly took off. Now she’s tapped for frequent photoshoots — even appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated‘s 2022 Swimsuit Issue at 74 years old — and she leans heavily into her status as an older icon.

There’s not just Elon. Still, in this, at least, it seems Maye can be celebrated. She’s taken a stand against aging people — particularly women — being shoved out of society and the spotlight, and her advocacy for health is irable. And so is her brazen embrace of her own aging, which helps destigmatize it among older women, and reminds the public that beauty doesn’t disappear at age 40. Women remain gorgeous — and deserve to show it off — into their 70s, 80s, 90s, and beyond, and that’s something to celebrate.


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Nahila Bonfiglio
Nahila carefully obsesses over all things geekdom and gaming, bringing her embarrassingly expansive expertise to the team at We Got This Covered. She is a Staff Writer and occasional Editor with a focus on comics, video games, and most importantly 'Lord of the Rings,' putting her Bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin to good use. Her work has been featured alongside the greats at NPR, the Daily Dot, and Nautilus Magazine.