At 76 years young, Martha Stewart is still one of the hottest women on television (what that says for her or for TV is an entirely different post altogether). Yet much like everyone else, she has a past, too — one that's just as glamorous as her famous Baked Eggplant Parmesan.

While going through college on a scholarship, Stewart took modeling gigs here and there to supplement her income. She appeared in ads for companies such as DuPont and Chanel before graduating with a double major in History and Architectural History. "I got enough modeling jobs at fifty-dollars an hour — which was a lot of money at that time," she once revealed in the PBS documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America.

As for her youth? It forever lives on in her scorching modeling photos. …