The future lifestyle mogul was 19 and a student at Barnard College.
Martha agreed, and her first date with Andy got off to an auspicious start.
“He was very polite and handsome,” she recalled in her Netflix documentary"Martha.
“At the time, Andy was studying at Yale Law School.
“He was just intriguing, playful, and nice.
By the end of dinner, I was madly in love.”
Their romance got serious very quickly, and Martha frequently traveled to Yale to be with Andy.
In the documentary, Martha candidly mentioned her early sexual experiences with him.
“I had never slept with anybody before this,” she divulged.
“He was very aggressive, and I liked it.”
Their early married life was happy, particularly their five-month European honeymoon.
Then, in 1965, Martha and Andy became parents when their daughter, Alexis, was born.
Over the years, however, the couple struggled as their lives went in different directions.
“But it wasn’t a homewe didn’t spend enough time with Lexi.”
Martha claimed that Andy had multiple affairs; however, she was reluctant to divorce him at the time.
Andy also accused Martha of cheating, asserting that she was at fault first.
Martha did admit that she had a short dalliance around the time she worked as a stockbroker.
Then she quickly dismissed it.
“I would never have broken up a marriage for it,” she explained in"Martha.”
During her documentary, Martha explained that she isn’t particularly comfortable discussing emotions.
“Dear Andy, I understand your craving for sex with others,” she wrote.
“None will ever love you as much.”
Martha and Andy went their separate ways after the split, with minimal interaction between them.
In October 2024, Martha informedPeople, “I haven’t talked to him for over 20 years.
Andy remarried two timesafter he and Martha divorced.
While she’s never remarried, Martha was in a long-term relationship with Charles Simonyi.
In recent years, however, Martha’s been outspoken that her love life isn’t her top priority.
