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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Martha Stewart has shared how her father, Edward Kostyra, protested against her engagement to her now ex-husband, Andrew ...
In a chapter of sumptuous desserts, a young Stewart, then Martha Kostyra, donning coiffed hair and pearls, smiles in the only existing family portrait of the Kostyra family from the 1950s.
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 Stewart. The 83-year-old businesswoman spoke candidly about her relationship ...