To be on the cover at my age was a challenge," Stewart told Today.

“And I think I met the challenge.

Martha Stewartis going back to her roots as the newest cover model forSports Illustrated.

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Her fellow cover girls includeMegan Fox,Kim Petras, and Brooks Nader.

“[Modeling] put me through college and paid for everything,” Stewart said onToday.

“I went from 50 cents an hour babysitting to 50 dollars an hour posing.

It was great.”

Stewart sees this return to modeling as a “testament to good living.”

She also started doing pilates “every other day.”

“The whole aging thing is so boring.”

In fact, among theSports Illustratedpictures, Stewart even recreatedher famous pool pout.