5 Things You Don't Know About Martha Stewart — From How She Found Her Passion to Her Views on Aging and More

Stewart is a self-made billionaire, but she wasn’t raised in a wealthy household. As one of six children born to Polish American parents in Nutley, N.J., she learned to garden at age 3 to help her family put food on the table. “My father instilled in me the importance of growing one’s own vegetables,” she said. “As soon as I had my own home, I started planting everything my family and I loved to eat.”

At age 19, she wed publisher Andy Stewart, and the two set out on a five-month European honeymoon. “It did awaken in me a love of cuisine, a love of travel, a love of discovery,” the lifestyle mogul, 83, who is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, Martha, said. “And I really felt, this is the thing I’d like to spend my life thinking about.”

After 29 years, Martha and Andy called it quits in 1990. While she admitted she had one “brief affair” during their union, she said, “I don’t know how many girlfriends [Andy] had at this time, but I think there were quite a few.”

Her daughter Alexis’ children, Truman and Jude, are the lifestyle icon's pride and joy. “They’re utterly fantastic,” she gushed. “I’ve taken them to the most unusual places in the world, and they’re only 12 and 13.”

"I think people are more fabulous than they’ve ever been in their senior years, and I applaud every one of them,” Martha, who at 81 posed for the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue, said. “How old I am, slowing down, retiring — I just don’t dwell on that.”