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Elon Musk‘s personal life is no less than a soap opera. The tech billionaire, known for his professional achievements, often makes headlines for his personal life. The 53-year-old CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has been married to two women since 2000 and has fathered 14 children from four different women.
However, his most talked about relationship remains with his first wife, Justine Musk, to whom he was married for eight years. They first met in the early 1990s when Justine was a freshman at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. At that time, Justine wasn’t looking for love. In fact, she was recovering from her first love with an older man she left behind in her hometown. “I liked older,” Justine confessed in her blog for Marie Claire.
It was during this time she met Elon Musk, who was a year senior to her. She described him as a “clean-cut, upper-class boy with a South African accent.”
Musk invited her on an ice-cream date, but when she blew him off, he romantically brought her two cones. That’s when she knew Musk wasn’t a man who takes no for an answer.
Both of them were poles apart. While Musk was a man of science, commerce, logic, and numbers, Justine aspired to be a writer. They had nothing in common, and yet there was a spark. When she told him about her ambitions, he not only took her seriously but also seemed impressed.
She wrote in her blog, “It was the first time that a boy found my sense of ambition — instead of my long hair or narrow waist — attractive. Previous boyfriends complained that I was “competitive,” but Elon said I had “a fire in my soul.” When he told me, “I see myself in you,” I knew what he meant.”
After graduation, they went their separate ways. However, destiny brought them together again. In the mid-90s, when Musk was settled in the Silicon Valley, they began dating. Musk was romantic in some of the most dreamy ways. Recalling an incident, Justine wrote, “He took me to a bookstore and handed me his credit card.
