What many don’t realize nowadays, is lifestyle guru Martha Stewart modeled in her teens and early adulthood to help pay for the portions of her education that her scholarship didn’t cover. She became very successful even though it was treated as just a part-time job. She got gigs from major brands including Chanel.

She then traded photoshoots for the stock market after landing a graduate role as a broker on Wall Street after college. It wasn’t until restoring an 1805 farmhouse and launching her own catering company in 1976, that really set her “lifestyle career” in motion.