How was Elon Musk’s Childhood?
Love him or hate him, everyone has struggles and failures.
Elon Musk had been a lot on the news lately. But ever wonder what his early life was like? Was he born into a rich family or did he have to struggle like many of us to become wealthy? Did he do well in school or he got to where he is by being street smart? How many siblings did he have? Did he come from a loving intact family, or was he from a broken home? That is why, I decided to look into his early life.
Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother Maye Musk, was from Canada and his father Errol Musk, from South Africa. He has two whole siblings. A brother named Kimbal Musk and a sister named Tosca who is a director and filmmaker. Maye Musk’s family moved to South Africa in 1950 from Canada, and she is a dietician and model. His childhood was hard as he was bullied and beaten by his classmates for a number of years and also by gangs of students, who always picked on him, until he grew up during his teenage years and now is 187 cms tall. His parents divorced in 1980 and he ended up living with his father, which wasn’t pleasant and he would later label him as ‘a terrible human being.’ However, Elon credits his father for his own engineering skills. Through his father, Elon also has half siblings. A brother and a sister (Alexander and Asha Rose) from…
