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FILE - In this April 11, 2019, file photo, television personality Martha Stewart attends The Hollywood Reporter's annual Most Powerful People in Media cocktail reception at The Pool in New York. The Martha Stewart brand is getting a new home. Sequential Brands Group, which bought the Martha Stewart brand nearly four years ago for about $353 million, said Tuesday, April 16, that it is selling it to Marquee Brands for about $175 million. As part of the deal, Marquee will also acquire the brand of TV chef Emeril Lagasse. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Martha Stewart is a cover model for the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

The 81-year-old lifestyle business woman is the oldest swimsuit model the magazine has featured. Stewart posed in the Dominican Republic for the photoshoot. She appears in ten looks.

“When I heard that I was going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, I thought, ‘Oh, that’s pretty good, I’m going to be the oldest person I think ever on a cover of Sports Illustrated,’” Stewart said to CNN Entertainment. "And I don’t think about age very much, but I thought that this is kind of historic.”

She began her career as a model at 15 years old. She then worked on Wall Street as a stockbroker before starting a catering business, which became a lifestyle media company.

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