# Maye Musk, 78, Wants Women to Stop Hiding Behind Towels Over Five Extra Pounds > Promoting her new memoir Timeless on CBS Mornings, 78 year old model Maye Musk talked candidly about body image, reinvention, and why so much of her career only took off after turning 50. - Source: Life Channel - Canonical URL: https://lifechannel.one/article/maye-musk-78-timeless-memoir-body-image - Author: Nora Whitfield - Section: Wellness - Published: 2026-09-19T13:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-19T13:00:00.000Z - Tags: Maye Musk, Body Image, Memoir, Aging, Celebrity News --- Maye Musk has spent decades building a modeling career that most people would assume peaks young, and she has made a point of proving otherwise. Appearing on CBS Mornings to promote her new memoir, Timeless: The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age, the 78 year old showed up polished in a gray pantsuit with a deep red shirt, chunky gold earrings, and her white hair styled in a slicked back wave, looking every bit the case study for her own book's argument. ## A career that started late and kept going Musk has been open about the fact that most of what she is now known for professionally did not happen until well after she turned 50. At 74 she became the oldest cover model in Sports Illustrated's history, a milestone she treats less as an exception and more as proof that reinvention does not have an expiration date. ## A blunt message about body image Much of her CBS Mornings appearance centered on the insecurities women carry about their appearance as they age, and Musk did not soften the point. She described how something as small as gaining five pounds can send women into hiding behind their towels, an image she used to illustrate just how disproportionate that kind of self criticism tends to be. Her broader message throughout the conversation was consistent with the rest of her public career: aging in the spotlight does not require shrinking, physically or otherwise. Fans responded to the appearance the way they usually do, filling her Instagram with comments calling her gorgeous and beautiful, reactions that have followed nearly every public appearance she has made in recent years, memoir tour included. --- Originally published by Life Channel. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://lifechannel.one/article/maye-musk-78-timeless-memoir-body-image.