#Why Martha Stewart Doesn’t Have Curtains on the Windows at Her Home

Martha Stewart has a trick to waking up early — letting the sunlight in.

The lifestyle guru and first, self-made American female billionaire doesn’t have curtains on any of the windows of her home in Bedford, New York.

“I wake up really, really early,” the 82-year-old explained during a Q&A with MasterClass CEO David Rogier at New York City’s Whitby Hotel on Thursday. “There are no curtains . . . so I let the sun come in as I start having workers come to my farm. I live on a farm and they come . . . at 7:00 a.m. so I have to be up.”

There’s a multitude of reasons Stewart is an early riser, but one is “I don’t sleep past that time ever because it would be embarrassing to be lounging around while my housekeepers were cleaning and how horrible.”

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She also tends to her many animals — “hundreds,” Stewart said — on the farm. “There’s lots and lots of animals, hundreds of animals and lots of gardens to take care of,” she explained.

Stewart has a new MasterClass offering that explores a day-in-the-life of the businesswoman, including her 5 a.m. wake-up calls. In the class, which launched Friday, she elaborates, “I’ve always gotten up with daybreak. I get dressed and I go to my Pilates instructor. . . . It helps tremendously. Your state of mind.”

In a Zoom interview earlier this year with Apartment Therapy, Stewart also divulged her distaste for curtains, stating, “I like to look outdoors.”