Martha Stewart used a new People magazine interview to lay out every filler appointment, facial, and peptide she credits for her appearance at 85, and slipped in a pointed critique of Meghan Markle's shift from actress to homemaking television host.
Stewart told the magazine she sees New York City dermatologist Dr. Dan Belkin roughly once every four months for filler touch-ups but drew a firm line at anything more invasive. She has not had plastic surgery, she said, and does not plan to start.
"I have not had any plastic surgery at all. I don't think I need it," Stewart told People. She added: "I'm not getting boobs done and hips and butts and stuff like that."
The interview, first detailed by the Daily Mail, landed days after Stewart celebrated her 85th birthday. It amounted to a full inventory of the habits she says keep her looking decades younger, and a brief, cool-eyed assessment of the Duchess of Sussex's career trajectory.
Stewart described Dr. Belkin as "a very superb dermatologist" and said her quarterly visits are limited to touch-ups rather than major procedures. Beyond the filler appointments, she listed facial exercises and regular facials from two providers, Mario Badescu and Georgia Louise, as staples of her skincare routine.
"I do facial exercises and have the best facials from Mario Badescu and Georgia Louise," she said.
Her regimen extends well past the dermatologist's office. Stewart reportedly takes private Pilates classes three times a week, rides horses, and uses both a masseuse and a chiropractor. She also takes peptide supplements, though she did not name specific products.
"Peptides are very good. I take a few peptides. So that's what I do," she told the magazine.
Stewart credited her mother, who, she said, "looked great at 95", with passing along both good genes and the disciplined habits she still follows. Her summary of the family formula was blunt.
"We eat well. We don't drink very much. We don't smoke. We eat healthy food. We exercise daily."
Stewart has also previously said she eats an all-organic diet, a detail consistent with the no-frills, no-shortcuts approach she outlined in the People sit-down.
The beauty-routine portion of the interview drew the most attention, but Stewart's comments about Meghan Markle carried a sharper edge. She told People she had recently attended a dinner party in California where the Duchess of Sussex was also a guest.
"I had dinner with Meghan Markle the other night. We were both guests at a dinner party in California. And she had just gotten back from the palace," Stewart said.
That trip was Harry and Meghan's recent reunion with King Charles, during which the couple brought their two children, Archie and Lilibet, to Britain to visit Prince Harry's father. Stewart said she exchanged only a few words with Markle at the dinner but noticed the duchess discussing the UK visit with other guests.
"I didn't talk to her really more than to say a couple words, but I know she was talking about it," Stewart said.
During that same UK trip, Prince Harry reportedly took Archie and Lilibet to a billionaire's private Scottish island, adding another layer to a visit that generated headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.
Stewart then turned to Markle's pivot from acting to royal life to her Netflix cooking and lifestyle show, "With Love, Meghan." The assessment was polite in tone but unmistakable in substance.
"If you're an actress, it's hard to then transition to a princess and then from a princess into a homemaking guru on a television show. It doesn't sort of follow. So go from there."
The remark carried particular weight coming from Stewart, who built her lifestyle empire over decades, cookbooks, a magazine, a television show, a merchandising line, before the term "influencer" existed. She did not question Markle's intentions but suggested the career path lacked a coherent thread.
Stewart has previously raised similar doubts about Markle's lifestyle brand pivot, making this less a one-off jab than a recurring theme. And she is hardly alone in questioning the duchess's media strategy. Oprah Winfrey faced criticism for her handling of Markle's claims during the couple's 2021 interview, a moment that shaped much of the public debate around the Sussexes' credibility.
Stewart offered no further comment on Markle's personal life or the broader royal family tensions. She left the critique where she planted it, on the professional logic of the pivot, and moved on.
At 85, Stewart remains one of the most recognizable figures in American homemaking and food media. Her interview with People read less like a celebrity vanity piece and more like an itemized receipt for a particular kind of discipline: quarterly dermatologist visits, daily exercise, organic food, minimal alcohol, no smoking, and a mother who modeled the same habits into her nineties.
Whether Markle's lifestyle brand finds a lasting audience remains an open question. Stewart's, after more than four decades, already has its answer.
