Martha Stewart shared a photo of three men burying a body this weekend.
It was her cat.
“(B)urying the beautiful and unique Princess Peony,” Stewart told her 1.6 million followers. “The four dogs mistook her for an intruder and killed her defenseless little self. (I) will miss her very much. RIP Beauty”
Stewart, 80, followed the image of the three men hovering over the patch of dirt in better times with a photo of the cat.
“(T)his was the Princess Peony,” she said, sharing a photo of the snub-nosed Persian cat.
Stewart adopted the calico cat in 2009 with another Persian calico, Empress Tang.
Raised as Martha Kostyra in Jersey City and Nutley, the multimillionaire lifestyle guru has loved cats all her life. Her first was Chiggi, who she adopted from an animal shelter.
Stewart, who is the subject of an upcoming Netflix documentary, has owned and cared for many pets.
These include French bulldogs, chow chows, peacocks, canaries, chinchillas, chickens, cows, geese, donkeys, pigeons, horses and a pony named Harrison Ford.
The longtime television host, who resides in Connecticut, New York (the city that houses the Hamptons and Westchester) and Maine, was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2019.
Stewart was a model before becoming a magnate and babysitter for Yogi Berra’s family while growing up in Nutley. Back then, she used to catch local muskrats, skin them and sell their pelts.
Martha Stewart, formerly Martha Kostyra, in the 1959 Nutley High School yearbook.Photocopy by Chris Preovolos | The Star Ledger
Thank you for trusting us to deliver the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting NJ.com with a subscription.
Amy Kuperinsky can be reached at [email protected] and followed at @AmyKup on twitter.