“Maybe a little uncertainty can help fuel ambition,” she shared with the New York Times. “When I left my job on Wall Street, I knew I had to create a career for myself. I became a caterer, catering parties every night.”
Although her change in careers was successful, her life at home suffered.
“At that time I wasn’t keeping my eye on the home, even though I was known as a homemaker. It wasn’t enough for a marriage,” she wrote.
Her marriage to then-husband Andrew Stewart, who she married at 19, had come to an end. The couple had one daughter, Alexis, together.
“Maybe I regret not having had more children. Maybe I regret that my marriage ended abruptly. We’d been together 27 years.”
After separating from her husband, Stewart never remarried, though she often finds herself wondering if finding love again would have changed her life in any way.
