From SpaceX to Tesla to the birth of his child and even the recent Twitter acquisition. There is no shortage of information about Elon Musk.
But this article is not about him, we know enough about him. Let’s take a look at the woman who gets to be called “mother”, by the billionaire. The same woman who recently graced the cover of Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue.
Is Maye Musk related to Elon Musk? Is Maye Musk Elon Musks mother?
Maye Musk was born Maye Haldeman on April 19, 1948, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was born to Winnifred Josephine and Dr. Joshua Norman Haldeman and had four siblings. One of her siblings was her twin.
She participated in the Miss South Africa beauty competition in 1969, where she was a finalist. A year later, she married Errol Musk, whom she met in high school.
They had three children; Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, and Tosca Musk. Nine years later, in 1979, she divorced Errol Musk. Elon went to live with his father two years later. Kimbal followed Elon four years later.
In 1989, she moved to Canada, taking her daughter Tosca with her.
In addition to her modeling career, she was awarded a master’s degree in dietetics from the University of the Orange Free State in South Africa. She received another Master’s degree from the University of Toronto in nutritional science.
