Martha Stewart creates controversy after using 'small iceberg' for her cocktail

02 September 2023 , 03:31

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Martha shared her special cocktail while on a cruise to mixed results (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Martha Stewart used an actual iceberg to chill her drink while on a cruise.

The 82-year-old posted a few photos on her Instagram Monday showing off her chilly drink on a Swan Hellenic cruise to Greenland. She captioned her post: "End of the first zodiac cruise from @swanhelleniccruises into a very beautiful fjord on the east coast of Greenland. We actually captured a small iceberg for our cocktails tonight."

The first photo showed Martha displaying her drink to the camera as she sat on the boat in matching cream-coloured pants, a puffer jacket, a shirt, and a fuzzy beanie hat. The second photo showed the small iceberg on a trolley.

Martha had her iceberg drink on her way to Greenland

The other photos in the set included a photo of Martha and her fellow cruise passengers enjoying drinks and photos of the various glaciers and icebergs she spotted while her boat travelled the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Some of her 1.9million followers weren't impressed by the post.

"Martha the ice caps are melting don’t put them in your drink," one said. "So as the climate warms due to the profits of a couple thousand people, billionaires vacation to the melting icebergs, scoop them up and use them to keep their cocktails cold," another wrote, "That sounds like a line from a dystopian novel. Can’t make this s**t up."

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People in the comments pointed out it was a normal thing to do in the arctic (Getty Images)

One user joked: "If you can’t find fresh icebergs for your cocktails store bought is fine.” Another pointed out that this wasn't out of the ordinary for cruises to the Arctic Ocean. "This is normal on those excursions. The ice is already floating, not part of the ice mass, it is slowly melting in the ocean. Every tour company does it. We did it in Alaska and Patagonia. We did NOT disturb the glaciers," they explained. One social media user admitted that: "We make booze and beer with it where I'm from. And we definitely put it in drinks."

The lifestyle mogul hasn't commented on the controversial post, but she isn't a stranger to sticking up for herself in the press. In May, she became the oldest cover model for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine.

Some were quick to criticise her appearance and said it was heavily photoshopped. "They're not," Martha said to Variety, "They are incredibly accurate pictures. I was really pleased that there was not much airbrushing."

Tatiana Krisztina