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Martha Stewart is living the luxury quarantine life the rest of us can only dream of

Hillary Hoffower   

Martha Stewart is living the luxury quarantine life the rest of us can only dream of
Martha Stewart is fulfilling our quarantine dreams.Peter Kramer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
  • If her Instagram feed is any indication, Martha Stewart is living an envious life in quarantine.
  • The home decor maven, age 78, recently posted a sexy pool selfie from her Hamptons home that caused a serious stir on the internet.
  • But she's mainly been riding out the pandemic at her Bedford estate, where she's been playing card games and cooking for her quarantined staff.

Baking cakes, sitting poolside, riding horses: That's the fabulous life of Martha Stewart, who is having a much more luxurious quarantine than the rest of us.

Stewart, age 78, was riding out the pandemic at her Bedford farm estate in New York before heading to her home in the Hamptons this summer. But no matter where she is, it looks like she's having a ball.

The lifestyle expert recently posted a pool selfie that quickly began trending on social media, which some dubbed a "thirst trap."

A quick scroll through Stewart's Instagram shows that she's still living her best life and a quarantine we're all dreaming of — and looks good doing it. Stewart did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment for this story.

Stewart has been riding out the pandemic in her Bedford farm estate, a 150-acre compound.

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This actually isn't the front of her estate. It's the summer house on the estate's grounds.

The Westchester County town is about an hour's drive north of Manhattan. As the Wall Street Journal reported in 2019, Bedford — one of the richest communities in America — has been home to many a celebrity and business mogul, including George Soros, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, and Bruce Willis.

President Trump, too, has a 39,000-square-foot mansion called Seven Springs in Bedford.

Source: Town & Country

She's been keeping company with her quarantined staff. Her driver, gardener, and housekeeper are all staying at separate residences on the property.

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"We have three detainees, I call them," she said in a video chat on Seth Meyers' talk show. "We make a nice dinner every night. We have a cocktail. We play cards after dinner."

Like the rest of us, Stewart has been working from home. That means Zoom media appearances and virtual commencement speeches like the one she gave for Barnard with Snoop Dogg and Michelle Obama.

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And, in true Stewart fashion, working means spending some time in the kitchen. Yeast cakes, galore!

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She told CNN she cooks something for her staff every day, mostly using food from her garden.

But what's a meal — or quarantine — without a drink? Stewart can frequently been seen whipping up fancy cocktails.

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"My 'Martharitas' are delicious," she told CNN, adding that she often uses fruit from her citrus trees in them.

Or popping bottles of Dom Pérignon Champagne.

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Ever the gardener, Stewart spends most of her time exercising her green thumb. She partnered with HGTV to share her home quarantine projects.

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"Martha doesn't just sit there and say, 'Do that!' her gardener, Ryan McAllister, told Town & Country. "She's out there doing everything with you." 

He said that they worked on preparing Stewart's outdoor vegetable garden and planting trees.

Source: CNN

Stewart has also found plenty of time to soak up the outdoors recreationally, like riding her horse among the elms and chestnut trees on her farm ...

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... or riding her turquoise bike around the estate in a fashionable helmet hat.

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For those look to emulate Stewart's quarantine style, the helmet-hat retails for $179 and is currently sold out.

Stewart recently made her way out east to her Hamptons home for a summer vacation.

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Her Hamptons home, according to her Instagram geotag, is in East Hampton. The average home price in East Hampton is $3.12 million.

It's the perfect backdrop for a pool selfie. If anyone's doing quarantine right, it's Stewart.

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Stewart told CNN that the day of the pool selfie, she had a friend over for a socially distanced lunch, which she followed up with a swim.

"I don't post to cause a stir," Stewart said. "I post to treat my audience."

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