After Martha, the recently released Netflix documentary by filmmaker R.J. Cutler, brought Martha Stewart ’s trajectory from ...

Her background was not a privileged one as one of six children growing up as Martha Kostyra in New Jersey. She was her salesman father's favorite, but he was cruel and a perfectionist. She became a ...

Martha Stewart has shared how her father, Edward Kostyra, protested against her engagement to her now ex-husband, Andrew ...

Her mother, Martha Kostyra, was a teacher and the pair could barely afford to raise six children, so often sold their produce in return for other essentials. Martha described her father as 'mean ...

But her background was hardly privileged. Martha introduces us to young, fresh-faced Martha Kostyra, one of a family of six kids growing up in Nutley, N.J., in the 1940s and ’50s. Her mother ...

In an interview with PEOPLE in 1995, Martha’s mother, Martha Kostyra, admitted that the divorce “badly wounded" Martha, adding, “I don’t think she’ll ever get over it." Martha ...

Martha Stewart knows a thing or two about family recipes. Her mom, Mrs. Kostyra (also known as “Big Martha”), was known for her cooking skills. Stewart has shared several of her mother’s ...

It is the philosophy that has propelled her to stardom and brought her low. Martha Kostyra was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, August 1941, the second of six children of Polish heritage.

Martha Stewart has shared how her father, Edward Kostyra, protested against her engagement to her now ex-husband, Andrew Stewart. The 83-year-old businesswoman spoke candidly about her relationship ...