new Netflix documentary. The famous homemaker, 83, recalled her dad’s angry reaction when she got engaged to Andrew Stewart.
The couple met when Martha was in undergrad at Barnard College in New York City and Andrew was a law student at Yale University.
They were set up by Martha’s classmate and Andrew’s sister. Martha said she “fell in love” with Andrew after their first date and they got engaged soon after — which Kostyra was not happy about.“I went home and told my dad, and my dad slapped me,” she shared. “Slapped me hard on my face and said, ‘No, you’re not marrying him.
He’s a Jew.'”“I remembered getting that slap,” she added. “I was not at all surprised because he was a bigot, and he was impulsive.
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