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Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra; born August 3, 1941) is an American businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising, and electronic commerce. She has written numerous bestselling books, is the publisher of the ''Martha Stewart Living'' magazine, and hosted two long-running syndicated television shows, ''Martha'', which ran from 2005 to 2012, and ''Martha Stewart Living'', which ran from 1993 to 2005. In 2004, Stewart was convicted of charges related to the ImClone insider trading affair and sentenced to prison. There was speculation that the incident would effectively end her media empire, although Stewart began a comeback campaign in 2005 and her company returned to profitability in 2006. Stewart rejoined the board of directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2011 and became chairman of her namesake company again in 2012. ==Early life== Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is the second of six children born to middle-class Edward "Eddie" Kostyra (1912–1979) and Martha Ruszkowski Kostyra (1914–2007), and is of entirely Polish heritage.〔(Ancestry of Martha Stewart )〕〔Stated on ''Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'', May 6, 2012〕 When Stewart was three years old, the family moved to Nutley. She adopted the name "Grace" for her confirmation name. When Stewart was 10, she worked as the occasional babysitter for the children of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Gil McDougald, all players for the New York Yankees. Mickey and Merlyn Mantle had four sons, for whom Stewart watched and organized birthday parties. She also began modeling. At 15, Stewart was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines, including one of Tareyton's "Smokers would rather fight than switch!" cigarette advertisements. During her college years, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time". Her clients included Chanel. Stewart's mother taught her how to cook and sew. Later, she learned the processes of canning and preserving when she visited her grandparents' home in Buffalo, New York. Her father had a passion for gardening and passed on much of his knowledge and expertise to his daughter.〔Beck Paprocki 2009 pp.17–18〕 Stewart was also active in many extracurricular activities, such as the school newspaper and the Art Club. Stewart graduated from Nutley High School. She originally planned to attend Barnard College with a major in chemistry. She switched to art, European History, and later architectural history. To help pay for her college tuition, she did fashion modeling for Chanel. During this time, she met Andrew Stewart, who finished his law degree at Yale Law School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/troubled_companies/imclone/html/timeline_martha.html )〕 They married in 1961.〔"EVERYWOMAN.COM" ''The New Yorker'' by Joan Didion, Published: February 21, 2000〕 She returned to Barnard a year after their marriage to graduate with a double major in History and Architectural History.〔〔(''graduate with a double degree/double major'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martha Stewart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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