playing] we re back with martha stewart on this edition of larry king live. we go to nashville, tennessee. hello. my question is, what do you feel is the biggest misconception the public has about you? i think that there have been so many misrepresentations of me. what s the biggest misconception? meanie. meanie. i m a softie. there is no media personality, businesswoman, celebrity chef like her. there is all this fear, and loathing, and anger, which is directed to you. i find it amongst my own friends, either they worship you or they say, that woman makes me crazy. when you think of her generation, it s ironic. she made this empire idolizing and perfecting what her generation of women were trying to leave behind. how did you get into this, for want of a better term, bag, martha stewart s shtick? i had been a caterer, before that a stockbroker. do you miss the world of stock exchange? yeah, i still do the market. you re the devil? yes. allegations of insider trading have cata
[dramatic music] the martha stewart story is very much about having no limits. in a male-dominated business world, she became a self-made corporate titan no, you cannot say this. by being the most intimidating homemaker on earth. martha stewart became an icon of design, icon of cooking. but there were always people who wanted to be against martha stewart. we re looking for imperfections. we re looking for cracks. we re looking for the fall. we re here to announce criminal charges against martha stewart. [chatter] this year s ipo activity so far is about $9 billion. i think it s a mania going on right now. the 1999 initial public offering market blasted off with internet frenzy. some of these valuations are in another galaxy. i ve never really seen anything like this. so at this time in 1999, this was the dot-com boom. this was the heyday of initial public offerings, ipos, on wall street, right? so there was money flowing into these companies, and martha stewart was a househ
we re back with martha stewart on this edition of larry king live. we go to nashville, tennessee. hello. my question is, what do you feel is the biggest misconception we are back here with martha stewart on larry king live. my question is, what you feel is the biggest misconception? i think there have been so many misrepresentations of me. what is the biggest? me. me? i m a softy. there was no media personality, businesswoman, celebrity chef biker. there was all this fear and loathing and anger which is directed to you. i find it mocks my own friends. they say that woman makes me crazy. when you think about her generation it s ironic. she made this empire idolizing and perfecting what her generation of women were trying to leave behind. how did you get into this bag? i had been a caterer and then a stockbroker. i still do the market. allegations of insider trading have catapulted the domestic darling in the media limelight. martha s story is a se
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