What We Know About Elon Musk's Mother

As Town & Country notes, Maye grew up traveling the world with her family — she even flew 22,000 across the globe when she just four years old. As Maye told Forbes in 2018, "My parents are the only people to have ever flown from South Africa to Australia in a single-engine plane. They went all the way up Africa, across Arabia and then across Asia, without any navigation. Who else would do that with a compass and a map?"

Maye would go on to marry Errol, but said about the aftermath of their split, "After divorcing I left South Africa to live in Toronto. They were tough years. On my own with three young children and no income. I'd cry when they spilt milk because I didn't have the money to buy any more" (via Vogue Italia).

Eventually her luck changed, and today, Maye is still a working model — yes, even as she enters her eight decade of life.

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