Martha Stewart praised for her ‘timeless’ beauty in photoshoot at 79: ‘More beautiful now than ever’

Martha Stewart has earned praise for her “timeless beauty” with her new feature in Harper’s Bazaar, which sees the 79-year-old posing in a series of high-fashion looks.

In the feature, titled: “Martha Stewart Is the Original Influencer”, for the magazine’s March 2021 issue, Stewart opens up about her lengthy career, her 2004 prison sentence, and her lasting influence on popular culture. 

The interview is paired with photos of the businesswoman, who was styled by editor-in-chief Samira Nasr, wearing everything from an oversized suit and converse to a black Balmain mini-dress. 

In another photo accompanying the feature, Stewart can be seen lounging on a bed in a Gucci dress while holding a book by Glamour about beauty, with the page opened to a photo of herself from the early 1960s.

On Instagram, where she shared the photo, the television personality wrote: “The opener is a great photo of me holding a book about beauty from Glamour Magazine. Original photo early 60s. Today , sixty years later I don’t look too bad!! Still can wear @gucci gowns!!”  

The interview and the accompanying photos of the 79-year-old were met with applause on social media, where many fans praised Stewart for her confidence and her enviable looks.

“I didn’t realise ageing like Martha Stewart was one of my life goals but apparently it is now,” author Anjali Kumar tweeted.

Another person wrote: “Martha Stewart is turning 80 years old and GOD DAMN SHE LOOKS FANTASTIC.”

“In pop culture or the media, we rarely celebrate the sexuality of older women. Look at Martha God Damn Stewart. She is Hot AF. Let’s celebrate her,” someone else said.

Others shared their approval of the cookbook author’s fashionable outfits, with many focusing on the photos of Stewart in the square-neck Balmain dress, which she paired with fishnets, or the orange Giambattista Valli gown.

“Martha Stewart in this Balmain dress is like my favourite thing today. I can’t. An OG,” one person wrote.

Following the photoshoot, Nasr also celebrated Stewart’s beauty on Instagram, where she shared a photo of the 79-year-old in Balmain and wrote: “Who said women fade after 40? This is almost 80!”

In the interview, Stewart reflected on the style of her past, revealing that she used to wear “hot pants” to work during her time as a stockbroker on Wall Street in the 1960s and 1970s.

Explaining that hot pants were short shorts “where you see plenty of leg and a little bit of your butt,” Stewart told Harper’s Bazaar that she would pair the velvet shorts with an alligator belt and a tight sweater tucked in and wear them to the office.

“And I looked great in them,” she said. “We would sit with our feet up on our desks, and I had high-heeled shoes on or boots. And that’s what we wore to work.”

As for the Instagram pool selfie that Stewart shared over the summer, which later went viral, she told the magazine that she decided to upload it because she thought she looked “nice”.

“I thought I looked nice, so I just snapped the picture,” she recalled.