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Maye Musk, mother of Tesla founder Elon, on the story of her family: "It was all a fight across the board"

2020-11-22T07:44:19.149Z


She was a single mother with three young children and went out of her way to have a roof over their heads and peanut butter sandwiches on the table. Now Maye Musk is a glamorous power woman, and her son Elon has also achieved something.


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Glamor Queen:

Maye Musk 

didn't have

 as easy a laugh as she did today at 72 

for a long time.

Her son Elon is one of the five richest in the world today.

Photo: Paul Archuleta / Getty Images

Alabaster skin, narrow gray-blue eyes, the white hair trimmed back in dynamic short hair swings.

It is medium in size, slim and angular.

The dress, long, black, streaked with silver, slit on the side, paused at the last moment with the precision of a surgeon;

after all, more would not be ladylike.

The large-format bling-bling from the well-known noble clunker house also catches the eye.

A grande dame, without a doubt.

But this look !, so ambiguously challenging, as if she could dash off as an easy rider.

"Maye Musk".

You swallowed the surname, calculating?

In any case, one is forced to ask: Musk, how ... mmh, Elon Musk?

How often has she been asked about a connection to the legendary PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX founder.

She scrutinizes her counterpart, explains more casually than triumphantly: “I am his mother.” And knows: That fits.

Karlie Kloss, Lady Gaga, Gigi Hadid, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, meanwhile, are driving the photographers into click-click madness.

It's St. Nicholas Eve 2016. The Fashion Awards are given in London's Royal Albert Hall, the fashion companies bring everything they have to offer in terms of large guns to their annual top event, eccentricity, models, talk of the town.

Diversity has long been a part of comme il faut, not just in terms of skin color, body size, sexuality, age is also in demand.

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Source: spiegel

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