Lifestyle diva Martha Stewart, who is under house arrest, told fans in an online chat Monday that the electronic monitoring bracelet she must wear is uncomfortable, but she’s busy with projects.
Stewart, talking to fans over the Internet from the kitchen of her estate outside New York City, said she was fitted last week for the ankle bracelet, which she must wear at all times.
She was released from prison on March 4 after serving five months for lying to investigators about a stock trade.
The 63-year-old businesswoman, founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc is confined to her home in Bedford, New York, for the next five months as part of her sentence. She is allowed to leave home for 48 hours a week to go to her office.
Stewart built a media and merchandising empire out of a catering business and has instructed millions of Americans how to tend flowers, plan dinner parties and organize their closets.
She returned to work last week at her company, vowing to use lessons from her prison experience to come up with new products and reach out to a wider audience.
Stewart also is set to star in two new television shows --a daytime lifestyle TV program and a spin-off of the popular Donald Trump reality show “The Apprentice.”
Asked whether she would write a book about her prison experience in Alderson, West Virginia, she said “I don’t plan to write a memoir of Alderson per se, but when I do write my autobiography it will surely contain a section relating to the last five months.”
Publishing experts have said previously that a memoir by Stewart could be a blockbuster, particularly if it includes candid recollections about her time in prison.
Stewart said she was making plans to host an Easter lunch or dinner and planned to serve kielbasa -- a dish that reflects her Polish heritage. She also was saving eggs from her henhouse to hard boil and use for an Easter centerpiece.
“I really didn’t miss any food or drink at all,” she said about prison food. “The past five months have taught me that we all can put up with quite a lot.”
