We love discovering the early work of people who are famous today. Long before she became the world’s most famous homemaker, Martha Stewart was a teen model. She appeared in this Lifebuoy soap commercial sometime in the fifties and is oddly paired with a mature man. Little did she suspect then, that in the future she would be wildly successful, but also spend time in prison for insider trading! Thanks to The WOW Report for this little trip back in time.
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she was just too young for ronald reagan……….
The “mature” man looks like Jerry Orbach.
Just as I always suspected, young Martha was FINE…
She doesn’t look like a teenager either in this…but very pretty and still looks the same.
Plenty of stories out there about Martha being as crazy about vj as Hillary Clinton is.
I guess she would really have to be a teen, literally, 14 to be exact. Considering she claims she was born in 1941, but she’s probably lying about her age too. It’s been suggested the actor in this ad is Martha Stewart the actress born in 1922, but looking at photographs of her, doesn’t look like the same person.
So he’s about fifty and she’s around eighteen.
Who’s being sold in that commercial? Fifty year old men or teen age girls?
Madison Ave. degenerates of the fifties.
Weiner already wrote that element into Mad Men with Roger dumping his wife for the cheerleader.
The “mature man” does look like Jerry Orbach. I would never have guessed that it was Martha Stewart.
Your show was so boring and really put me to sleep and yes you are making millions and people love you but I think your boring and bland and greedy and I glad home boy took your money and did his thing with it.
I’ve watched it over several times now and I don’t think it’s Martha after all. Why doesn’t someone ASK her????
It’s really Martha, Reta.
Unilever (maker of LifeBuoy) surprised Martha with a showing of the ad at a recent industry event, and then she commented on it.
And, amazingly, she was just 15 when the spot was filmed.
OMG the age difference is so wrong!!
Martha really is a woman of many talents.
Humbleness NOT being one of them!!
She is really pretty…Real Blond and that is hard to find any where and yes I am happy for her making money and having a good life and doing so many things and having a daughter and being a grand mother and going all over the world and having a stress free life and doing what she wants to do and all I am saying is that I Find her rather boring and I Want to go to sleep every time I See her show and 5 minutes into her show I am taking a nap and yes she is good for something and that is putting me to sleep.