Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Maye Musk
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
My mother worked as an artist until she was 96.
I love a massage - I should go more often, but I think I go once a month.
I have to avoid sweet food because it's my weakness, and it's really hard. What you eat will definitely affect your skin, so I really try to stay away from sweets.
I don't dye my hair. It's so fabulous. I had brown hair for so long. I was always getting my roots done. Sometimes I did it myself because I couldn't afford to go to a hair salon. When I turned 60, I decided to see what color I am underneath. I started dyeing my hair a very light blond and then I let it grow out. I cut it very short.
I grew up in the happiest home - my parents were really adventurous, and I was very lucky.
I take 12-bean soup mixes, soak the beans overnight, boil them up, add tomatoes and flavoring, and freeze it. I'll have a cup a day. It's very nutritious.
Makeup transforms me. I feel like I'm in disguise when I walk my dog without makeup on.
After divorcing, I left South Africa to live in Toronto. They were tough years. On my own with three young children and no income. I'd cry when they spilt milk because I didn't have the money to buy any more.
When I go to shoots, the young models are excited to see me. It proves they can have long and successful careers, too.
When I was younger, I was mousey brown and started putting in highlights with each child. By the time I had my third baby, I was pretty much a blonde, and I stayed that way until I was in my late 50s.
I started doing runway work when I was 15, and I remember meeting a model who was 30 - ancient, for the industry - and everyone was so happy to see her. As I've gotten older, I've experience the same thing. People are just thrilled to see me modeling!
I eat vegetarian at home, so I always have yogurt and milk, eggs, whole wheat bread, whole grains. Lots of vegetables and fruit. Cereals and oatmeal. That type of thing.
When I go out on the runway, I can feel the audience vibrate.
I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.
My parents were the only people to go to South Africa from Australia in a single engine plane... the two of them, no radio... you had to fly down low to see the street signs to know which city you were in... most people couldn't speak English.
For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.
I spend three hours a day working on my social network profiles. I think about the right people to tag, the ones who might generate new leads. It's my work, my self-promotion.
The beehives from the '60s were gorgeous. The big hair from the '80s wasn't.
First of all, the skin is the largest organ in the body, so if you're going to eat well for your heart or for your kidneys or for your liver, then, pretty much, that will help your skin as well.
If there's foods I don't like, like kale, it doesn't mean that I'm not efficient in my diet; it just means I can eat broccoli and other green vegetables. That's what people don't understand, is that as long as you're having a variety of foods in your diet, you don't have to have the food of the week that's everyone going crazy about.
At 15, I was modeling. I had to do my own hair and makeup. I also made my own clothes because I grew up in South Africa, where fashion was six months behind because of the seasons.
They were responsible. I had very good kids. I was very lucky.
I'll continue working as long as people want to hire me.
If you can eat five fruits and vegetables a day, that alone can totally change your diet.
I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.
I just think a big smile and feeling confident makes you beautiful.
I've never been scared of aging.
Get your nutritional information from registered dieticians, not miracle healers. You'll be happier, and it's less expensive.
I don't take supplements - I get nutrition from food.
I don't like kale, so I don't eat it.
I always said, as a dietician, age doesn't matter. As long as you're doing good research and helping people eat well, it doesn't matter what age you are.
I always have snack-y foods with me, like nuts and individually wrapped prunes. I don't like getting hungry. When you're hungry, you'll look for foods, and it's never salad; it's always muffins!
My personal style icons are Diane Von Furstenberg and Linda Fargo. For strength and their own style, Christine Lagarde and Angela Merkel.
My parents were very famous, but they were never snobs.
I think that's one thing that's kept me working in this industry for so long: my interest in self-representation. It's a big part of my role as a dietitian, too - helping people feel happy, healthy, and confident exactly as they are.
If I had a modelling job and then it became a poster, it meant that my kids and I could have turkey for Christmas dinner. Otherwise, we had chicken.
When I got divorced, I knew I needed to step it up, so I taught nutrition at a college, modeled, and built my dietitian practice all over Canada.
When Elon was 17 and my daughter was 15, they really wanted to move to Canada, where my family is from. I said no, because I wanted to do a Ph.D. in Johannesburg, and I was getting lots of modeling work there. But Elon and I went over to visit, and while I was gone my daughter sold my home and my car and had a big garage sale with all my furniture.
I'm considered a huge model because I'm a size six. But... I had a standard body size for catalogues.
If you try to hold onto the old trends, then you'll look old.
I would model when they wanted me, and as I got older, they wanted an older model. I was quite willing to be mother of the bride at 28. I was quite happy to be on the cover of a grandparents' magazine at 42; I have no ego about that.
My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up.
If somebody says, 'That's Elon's mum,' which happens quite a bit, they are usually stunned; sometimes they cry. I'm flattered because, I mean, to them, he's saving the world. They just feel he's the only hope.
Makeup does a lot for your confidence. When I put makeup on, I walk taller. I smile more. I feel good. I know I look prettier. Even if I just put day makeup on.
I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.
When the kids were growing up, they learned to be independent. I told them, 'As long as you're doing something good, it's worth pursuing.' That's why I invested in them in the first place and gave them as much as I could for their first company, Zip2.
With wearing makeup a part of my job as a model, one might think I'd get tired of it, but I absolutely love it.
I cap my shoe collection at 40.
I just wanted to be the best dietician in the world - but then modeling took over.
You have to stay active; it keeps the bones flexible.
I have to plan all my meals and snacks every day, or the wheels come off, and I gain weight.
I like to tweet out nutrition research because I did my bachelor of science degree in dietetics.
I was a science nerd. I have two science degrees. I enjoyed the sciences, nutrition, so I always modeled part time, thinking it would end.
I just want to work.
I'm a U.K. size 8, so not skinny.
My best piece of style advice is to keep your wardrobe small and love everything in it.
I just think everything my kids do is fabulous.
It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.
For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I had to pay the rent, I needed the roof over our head and food for us to eat and some clothes.
I was a nerdy student.
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