Maye Musk in an interview about Elon, modeling and her family

If you want to understand Elon Musk, you need to get to know his mother Maye. In an interview, she talks about adventure travel in the desert, her modeling career at the age of 70, and how she once gave up dates out of poverty.

E.It was the year of Elon Musk. After he was considered a loud mouth for a long time and attracted attention with strange tweets, everyone has taken him seriously since this year. His electric car company Tesla became the most valuable American car company of all time. The company is finally making enough profit to be included in the US S&P 500 stock index. And Musk’s start-up Space X took humans into space for the first time. You can better understand what drives Elon Musk when you meet your mother Maye. Her autobiography “One Woman, One Plan” will be published on Thursday. She has a lot to say: As a two-year-old, she moved with her family from Canada to South Africa – partly because of her father’s hunger for adventure, partly because he’d messed with the Canadian government, whose policies seemed too communist to him. Today, Maye Musk is one of the world’s most sought-after models over 70, a nutritionist and consultant with two master’s degrees, all with an eventful personal life. The Musk family is remarkable in many ways.

Mrs. Musk, your new book contains quite a shocking episode in your life. You tell how your husband beats you up and your son Elon is desperate to help you …