55 Facts About Martha Stewart Living

1. Martha Stewart Living's keen entrepreneurial instincts included an ability to understand the advantages of "synergy", a business concept that became popular during the 1990s as such media corporations as Time Warner became increasingly consolidated.

2. Martha Stewart Living's keen entrepreneurial instincts included an ability to understand the advantages of "synergy", a business concept that became popular during the 1990s as such media corporations as Time Warner became increasingly consolidated.

3. Martha Stewart Living's keen entrepreneurial instincts included an ability to understand the advantages of "synergy", a business concept that became popular during the 1990s as such media corporations as Time Warner became increasingly consolidated.

4. Martha Stewart Living's keen entrepreneurial instincts included an ability to understand the advantages of "synergy", a business concept that became popular during the 1990s as such media corporations as Time Warner became increasingly consolidated.

5. Martha Stewart Living serves on the board of directors of the Magazine Publishers Association.

6. Martha Stewart Living has taught an entire generation of American women how to cook, garden, and decorate their homes.

7. In 1999 Martha Stewart Living caused a Wall Street sensation when she took her company public.

8. Martha Stewart Living contemplated entering graduate school to study architecture but decided that her father–in–law's profession as a stockbroker interested her more.

9. In 1976 Martha Stewart Living began a catering business, working out of her home's basement kitchen, which led to her career as a cookbook author and domestic lifestyle expert.

10. Martha Stewart Living contemplated entering graduate school to study architecture, but decided that her father-in-law's profession as a stockbroker interested her more.

11. Martha Stewart Living put her imprint on a wide-ranging line of tastefully designed household merchandise.

12. In 1990, Martha Stewart Living reached a new audience when she introduced Martha Stewart Living magazine.

13. Martha Stewart Living finally went into business on her own, running a store called the Market Basket.

14. Martha Stewart Living was supposed to make the food herself, but instead she hired others to cook for her.

15. In 1976, when the project was complete, Martha Stewart Living was eager to try another career, this time drawing on her love of food.

16. Martha Stewart Living quit her job, and she and her family moved to an old farmhouse in Westport, Connecticut.

17. Martha Stewart Living showed an early interest in entertaining, sometimes organizing birthday parties for neighborhood children.

18. Martha Stewart Living has defined simple elegance and style for a generation of Americans and a growing number of customers around the world.

19. Martha Stewart Living stayed with the program until January 1997 when she left to join CBS's This Morning as part of a package deal with CBS.

20. Martha Stewart Living was hired to be the free-lance food editor for House Beautiful, a national magazine that helped solidify her growing reputation.

21. Martha Stewart Living got her first taste of national media exposure when People magazine ran a story on her and Andy, who had left legal work to become a publishing executive.

22. Martha Stewart Living passed the broker's exam easily and was registered with the New York Stock Exchange in 1968, right after her 27th birthday.

23. Martha Stewart Living took a live-in maid position for two elderly widowed sisters on Fifth Avenue so she could move away from home.

24. Martha Stewart Living was named one of the ten best-dressed college women in America by Glamour magazine, in 1961.

25. At an early age, Martha Stewart Living helped her three brothers and two sisters trap muskrats and sell the skins for extra money.

26. In 2002 Martha Stewart Living came under federal investigation for insider stock trading as a result of her suspicious sale of nearly four thousand shares of ImClone stocks on December 27, 2001, the day prior to a Food and Drug Administration announcement declaring that a promising cancer drug produced by ImClone would not be considered for review.

27. Martha Stewart Living caused a major stir on Wall Street when she took her company public in an initial public offering in October 1999.

28. In 1993 Martha Stewart Living launched a television version of her magazine, titled Martha Stewart Living, which was produced through a subsidiary of Time and syndicated throughout the country.

29. Martha Stewart Living's keen entrepreneurial instincts included an ability to understand the advantages of "synergy", a business concept that became popular during the 1990s as such media corporations as Time Warner became increasingly consolidated.

30. In 1987 Martha Stewart Living signed a lucrative contract with the discount retailer Kmart to serve as the company's lifestyle consultant.

31. In 1979 Martha Stewart Living received a $25,000 advance from Crown Publishing to write her first book, Entertaining, hiring the free-lance writer Elizabeth Hawes to assist her.

32. Martha Stewart Living turned her boundless energy to renovating the dilapidated house that would become famous as Stewart's showpiece and base of business operations.

33. Martha Stewart Living graduated from Barnard in 1963 and continued modeling in New York while her husband established his law career.

34. Martha Stewart Living's modeling career was given a boost in 1961 when she was named by Glamour magazine as one of America's 10 best-dressed college students.

35. Martha Stewart Living pleaded not guilty, saying she had a standing order with Bacanovic to sell her shares if ImClone stock fell below $60.

36. Martha Stewart Living quickly jumped into damage control mode and publicly made amends with Ray.

37. In 2007 Martha Stewart Living created a controversy when she attempted to trademark the word "Katonah" for a line of her home furnishings and paints.

38. Martha Stewart Living apparently decided these rules were not good things, though.

39. In 1967 Martha Stewart Living went back to work, but this time she took on Wall Street rather than the runway.

40. Martha Stewart Living told Adweek in 2000 that her curiosity fuels her search for new items and ideas that can help her customers live better.

41. Martha Stewart Living pledged her loyalty to the company, giving its image a boost, but it did not prevent the retailer from filing bankruptcy in January 2002.

42. Martha Stewart Living helped design the products and made sure they met her standards of quality.

43. Martha Stewart Living became such a success that she was written up in several national food and women's magazines, and in 1979 she was named a food editor for House Beautiful.

44. Martha Stewart Living expanded further into home furnishings through a deal with Bernhardt Furniture Company for a Martha Stewart Signature collection in 2001, the same year MSLO signed with Japan's Seiyu, a retail chain of more than 200 stores.

45. Martha Stewart Living took her road show to Wall Street in October 1999 with an initial public offering of over 8.28 million shares for $18 each.

46. Martha Stewart Living had further plans for the lucrative Kmart partnership, hoping to build on her brand's name by introducing new lines of cooking, gardening, and decorating merchandise.

47. Martha Stewart Living was hired to help create home products for the retailer, including a line of Dutch Boy paint colors and bath and bedding products.

48. In 1976 Martha Stewart Living founded her own business, a catering operation headquartered in the basement of the historic farmhouse she lived in with her husband and daughter in Westport, Connecticut.

49. Martha Stewart Living has long denied any wrongdoing and her attorneys have appealed her conviction.

50. Martha Stewart Living made a comeback after she was released from the prison in March 2005.

51. In 2013, Martha Stewart Living found herself inside a courtroom .

52. Martha Stewart Living finished her sentence by serving five months of house arrest at her home in Bedford, New York.

53. Martha Stewart Living attended Barnard College in Manhattan, where she earned a degree in European and architectural history in 1962.

54. Martha Stewart Living has a special language she uses only with animals.

55. Martha Stewart Living is an insomniac and watches lots of late-night and cable-access television.