<p><font size="2"><img title="martha-model13" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="667" alt="martha-model13" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/marthamodel13.jpg" width="525" border="0" /> </font></p>  <p><font size="2">I learned about Martha Stewart’s modeling career when I saw her on </font><a href="http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprahs-Cut-with-Martha-Stewart/2"><font size="2">Oprah</font></a><font size="2">.&#160; After the interview, she showed photographs of her modeling career on her </font><a href="http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprahs-Cut-with-Martha-Stewart/2"><font size="2">website</font></a><font size="2">.&#160; Now, </font><a href="http://www.toryburch.com/toryburch/index.jsp"><font size="2">Tory Burch</font></a><font size="2"> has created an homage to Martha on her website.&#160;&#160; I am obsessed with Martha and have read about her business dealings closely – maybe it’s because she’s a fellow Leo, maybe it’s because she doesn’t suffer fools easily, I love Martha.&#160; The photographs of her modeling days, I’ve saved for a long time – the look could be any of the college girls I would watch walking buy Barnard or Columbia.&#160; </font><img title="Martha-Stewart-Model-1960s-1" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="501" alt="Martha-Stewart-Model-1960s-1" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MarthaStewartModel1960s1.png" width="525" border="0" /><strong><font size="2">On Focus:</font></strong></p>  <p><font size="2"><em>I can almost bend steel with my mind. I can bend anything if I try hard enough. I can make myself do almost anything. But you can get too strong like that, so you have to be careful. You have to temper your strength…It's putting your brain behind anything and making it happen.</em></font></p>  <p><font size="2"><img title="martha1" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="670" alt="martha1" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/martha1.jpg" width="525" border="0" /> </font></p>  <p><strong><font size="2">On Taking Work Seriously:</font></strong></p>  <p><font size="2"><em>I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life. That's why when people say, &quot;Are you a feminist?&quot; I say, &quot;No, I'm not.&quot; I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to. Sometimes that's a struggle; it's harder than it should be, and I think I have paid my dues. I certainly have worked extremely hard, and I've succeeded nicely.</em></font></p>  <p><font size="2"><img title="martha2" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="392" alt="martha2" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/martha2.jpg" width="525" border="0" /> </font></p>  <p><strong><font size="2">On Hard Work:</font></strong></p>  <p><font size="2"><em>It's very nice. But I'm not going to pat myself on the back and say, &quot;You've really done it, girl,&quot; because I [still] work hard. Nobody knows better than I how many hours a day I put in. Today I got up at 4 a.m. to write two [newspaper] columns. I knew that you were coming, but I didn't bake you a cake because you and I don't need a cake! But I went to the gym, did work with my assistant and did another interview. So I did a lot of work today already, and it's important to me to be rewarded for that work. If I work that hard, I'd better have results. And that's how I've always approached my jobs. There had better be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, because [getting there] is really hard.</em></font></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/o51zFCEDBq19ljzbJ5qgXEGjo1_400.jpg"><img title="o51zFCEDBq19ljzbJ5qgXEGjo1_400" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="803" alt="o51zFCEDBq19ljzbJ5qgXEGjo1_400" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/o51zFCEDBq19ljzbJ5qgXEGjo1_400_thumb.jpg" width="525" border="0" /></a> </p>  <p><strong><font size="2">On Rewards:</font></strong></p>  <p><font size="2"><em><b>Oprah</b> So what does the payoff need to be for you?         <br /><b>MS:</b> Ease of living. A feeling that I can write a check without worrying, choking or fretting.</em></font></p>  <p><img title="Screen-shot-2009-09-27-at-5.07.25-AM" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="505" alt="Screen-shot-2009-09-27-at-5.07.25-AM" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Screenshot20090927at5.07.25AM.png" width="525" border="0" /> </p>  <p><strong><font size="2">On Perfectionism:</font></strong></p>  <p><font size="2"><em><b>O:</b> Are you a perfectionist, or is that just the perception the world has of you?         <br /><b>MS:</b> I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company.         <br /><b>O:</b> So being seen as a perfectionist is not a bad rap?         <br /><b>MS:</b> It's the best rap! Nobody's going to fault me for that. I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.</em></font></p>  <p><font size="2"><strong>On Nurturing your Spirit:</strong></font></p>  <p><font size="2"><em>I think about other things and people more than I think of myself. I don't like to think about myself a lot. If I think about myself, I'll get selfish. And I don't want to be selfish.</em></font></p>  <p><font size="2"><strong>On Achievements:</strong></font></p>  <p><font size="2"><em>Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream—to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.</em></font></p>