Martha Stewart: 'Millennials are lazy, self-indulgent and lack the initiative to be successful'

Millionaire, ex-model and television personality Martha Stewart has criticised millennials as being “lazy, self-indulgent and lacking the initiative to be successful.”

Stewart, famed for giving advice on all things home-making, claims that generation Y are not motivated enough to go out and make a career for themselves and are too reliant on their parents for housing.

The 74-year-old said in an interview with Luxury Listings NYC magazine: "I think every business is trying to target Millennials. But who are Millennials? Now we are finding out that they are living with their parents. They don't have the initiative to go out and find a little apartment and grow a tomato plant on the terrace.

"I understand the plight of younger people.... The economic circumstances out there are very grim. But you have to work for it. You have to strive for it. You have to go after it."