S30E20: Mary Kay Ash

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that's certainly one way to look at the story of Mary Kay, the cosmetics company founded by a woman who'd been divorced and then widowed (and then widowed again) in an era where women weren't exactly welcome in C-suites. But Mary Kay Ash seems to have had some secrets - secret husbands, to be clear - as does the company she founded. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Trashy Divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:06.9	My name is Stacey. Put on your best faces, everyone, Alicia here. Thank you for joining us for this
0:14.1	week's tale of marital misadventure. It is my delight this week to bring you the trashy divorces story of Mary Kay.
0:22.9	Founder of the cosmetics line, of course, we will get to the pink Cadillacs in this episode.
0:29.3	But trash pandas, I need to let y'all know this one is a complete and total trashy divorces mystery.
0:36.4	Stacey, you and I normally can estimate how many times people get married
0:40.7	and divorce. Yeah, there's documentation. Yeah, usually it's, you know, famous people, there's pictures.
0:46.4	It's, you know, yeah. Absolutely. This one, y'all, it's a total mystery. Mary Kay's official biography
0:53.0	says three marriages, one divorce and two widowhoods.
0:56.9	Okay. But the real deal and, well, you know, her friends along the way tell an alternate version
1:03.5	of her romantic life, racking up maybe five trashy divorces along the way. Are you saying that Mary Kay used some concealer on her life story?
1:14.9	I do love a mystery and a sweet pink car too.
1:19.3	If you love us for our pink Cadillacs and tearing up your trashy hearts with our stories,
1:24.6	we think you had better.
1:26.2	Go, go, go.
1:38.8	Music with our stories, we think you had better. Go, go, go. Oh, Trash Pandas, I think you are really going to like this story today.
1:42.9	Let's go ahead and do a little bit of a summary about Mary Kay to set the stage, so to speak.
1:48.4	Absolutely.
1:49.1	To prep our foundation.
1:51.3	Uh-huh.
1:51.8	Look at you.
1:53.5	Anyone over probably 25 years old in the United States will likely associate the name Mary Kay with cosmetics, women gathering in
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