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  2. Oct 21, 2015 · They are—what else?—twins. Maye, who was divorced from Elon and Kimbal’s father before Elon was 10, has two master of science degrees, practiced as a dietician, and worked on the side as a model...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Maye_MuskMaye Musk - Wikipedia

    By the age of 12, before and then after school, Musk worked as a receptionist alongside her twin sister for their father. As a young woman, Haldeman was a finalist in the 1969 Miss South Africa beauty competition. In 1970, she married Errol Musk, a South African engineer she met in high school

  4. Nov 15, 2019 · According to the book, five-year-old Elon tried to stop his father from beating his mother by hitting him on the knees. Even so, when he was 10, Elon chose to move to his father’s home. “That ...

  5. Mar 9, 2017 · Maye and Kaye: The first mothers of tech. vanityfair.com. How Elon Musk’s Mom (and her Twin Sister) Raised the First Family of Tech. All reactions: 69. 3 comments.

    • She's A Supermodel
    • She's A Dietitian
    • She's A Social Media Maven
    • She Participated in Beauty Pageants
    • She Has A Twin
    • She Had An Adventurous Upbringing
    • She Is A Domestic Abuse Survivor
    • She Worked Hard as A Single Mother
    • She Created A New Life in Canada in Her 40s
    • She Has No Plans to Retire

    Maye started modeling at the age of 15. Though she was told this career would be over by the time she was 18, she ended up working for decades as a print and runway model. "My friends tell me: I was famous before Elon was famous," she told Vanity Fair. After turning 60, Maye became more successful, which she's attributed to her decision to stop col...

    Maye holds two master's degrees, one in dietetics and the other in nutritional science. She built a successful dietitian practice in South Africa and then rebuilt her career after moving to Canada in her 40s. Being a dietitian provided Maye with a stable career when modeling work was slow. Maye put on weight in her 30s, and in the 1990s she was abl...

    Maye disproves the stereotype that older people don't understand social media. Her Instagram feed garnered interest from IMG Models, and signing with them helped take her modeling career to the next level. Maye has credited connections made on Facebookwith leading to her first couture show, which happened when she was 67. Plus, she's used Twitter t...

    A friend once entered a 20-year-old Maye in a beauty pageant. She decided to go through with the competition and won. In 1969, she was a finalist for Miss South Africa.

    Maye has a twin named Kaye, with whom she remains close. Their children spent time together growing up; like Maye, Kaye also raised successful entrepreneurs.

    Maye's family moved from Canada to South Africa in 1950, when she was almost 3 years old. In winter, the family would venture into the Kalahari desert, taking enough supplies for three weeks. They were hoping to locate the desert's rumored Lost City, though they were never successful.

    Maye wed Errol Musk in 1970. It was the beginning of a marriage that containedphysical and mental abuse, as Errol reportedly beat her and forced her to cut off contact with her family. But splitting up was difficult, as Maye felt embarrassed by her situation. In addition, at the time divorce laws in South Africa didn't consider abuse a sufficient r...

    A divorced Maye struggled to make ends meet. She shared in an interview with the Huffington Post, "After my divorce, I had to house and feed three kids without maintenance. Poverty makes you work really hard. I remember crying when one of my kids spilled milk. The saying goes 'don't cry over spilled milk.' I cried because I couldn't buy another mil...

    Thanks to Maye's being born in Canada, her children were able to obtain Canadian passports. At 18, Elon headed there after graduating from high school. His teenage siblings also wanted to relocate to Canada, so Maye went there to assess the potential move. While Maye was in Canada, her daughter Tosca made arrangements to sell her mother's house and...

    Maye has no plans of slowing down any time soon, telling The New York Times, "I will never retire. My mom never retired. I'll work until no one wants me anymore, and then I'll find something else and I'll still be a dietitian doing nutrition research, which I love."

  6. Apr 30, 2016 · Front row: her older sister, Lynne; her twin sister, Kaye; and Maye. She was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1948, a twin and one of five children, and moved with her family to...

  7. May 10, 2018 · A family friend moved in with Maye, her twin-sister Kaye, and their 3 other siblings to take care of them. When not on odysseys to far-flung places in their single-engine Bellanca aircraft,...

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