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Mother Knows Best: Meet The Woman Who Raised Tech Mogul Elon Musk | TODAY - YouTube
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we are launching a new series you guys
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it's called mother knows best and we're
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kicking things off with May must and you
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might recognize that last name it's a
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famous one yes she's Elon Musk's mother
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but she's also a star in her own right
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she recently walked the runway for Dolce
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& Gabbana in Italy and she's a social
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media sensation at 70 NBC special anchor
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Maria Shriver sat down with the model
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and media master if I don't want to brag
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about myself it's embarrassing and I've
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done just fine just fine
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May musk is talking about her growing
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Instagram account but the 70 year old
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social media maven and covergirl is much
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more comfortable bragging about her kids
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and then that opens for YouTube she's
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showing me her Tesla the electric car
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created by her son Elon Musk the
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billionaire and tech mogul famous for
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pushing the envelope with his ideas
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as well as his opinions thanks boring
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bonehead questions are not cool opening
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himself up to critics CEO Elon Musk
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started insulting analysts how do you
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know when people attack your son it's
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only reading the media to my face they
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just say thank you it's just the media
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do negative headlines and you get angry
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about that I get very upset
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wouldn't you May is her son's staunch
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supporter are you surprised that your
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son has become this global figure he was
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always brilliant always said he was he's
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actually come out of his shyness knee
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despite what her life may look like now
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may musk says it hasn't always been easy
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by the time she was 31 she was divorced
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and raising her three kids Elan Kimball
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and Tosca on her own in South Africa she
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supported the family by working as a
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model and dietitian as long as I had
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health good health I could work day and
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night and I did work day and night when
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her children decided they wanted to
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leave for her native Canada the family
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moved and Mae started all over again
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you're pounding the pavement you have
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these three kids is it a struggle well
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financially is a struggle but I would go
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home and I had a happy family and that
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was that was more important maysun
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Kimball says their mom set the tone at
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home this element of joyful attitude
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towards making a difference focus on
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what you're passionate about you know
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the money will come well the success
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will come and that's exactly what
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happened for Kimberlin Elon Musk when
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they launched their first tech company
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zip2 in Palo Alto in the mid 90s I would
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go every six weeks I would cover the
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costs for example four and furniture and
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printing after a particularly rough
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all-nighter at Kinkos making copies of
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their business plan for potential
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backers everything changed
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Ned morning their internet came back and
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we were all exhausted and we look
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terrible and and they said hey they're
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going to finance us
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said we're going to the best restaurant
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in town as if that's the last time you
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see my card so that really was the last
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yes yes today May is free to focus on
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her own career recently modeling with
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women half her age at a Dolce & Gabbana
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show in Italy pink I'm representing
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older woman and women like it she says
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her family likes it too and by the way
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she wants to make sure you know about
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all of them I want equal timing Tosca
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does passion flicks where it's basically
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romance novel she's making it to movies
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Kimble is doing the vegetable gardens
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you know in underserved schools ever the
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proud mother named musk says she's also
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enjoying her time in the spotlight are
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you proud of yourself I'm happy with
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where I am now yes proud yeah it's a
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pride I still think I have a lot more to
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do star was a single mom with three kids
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or I can care and look what she did I
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know now she's having her own moment
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