⁍ The photo is currently trending on Twitter and has more than 200,000 likes on Instagram.

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⁍ ‘I looked at it and I looked so nice because of the sun streaming down. So I snapped the picture and I sent it to the internet,’ Stewart said.

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⁍ Stewart said she spends most of her time — from 7 A.M. to sunset — working on her farm, but the show is tailored toward home gardeners.

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– “I don’t post to cause a stir. I post to treat my audience.” That’s Martha Stewart’s response to the uproar that ensued after she posted a selfie from her chlorine-free pool in East Hampton, NY, to Instagram on Tuesday. She tells CNN that she was taking photos of her gardens when the camera automatically went to selfie mode. “And I looked at it and I looked so nice because of the sun streaming down,” she says. “So I snapped the picture and I sent it to the internet.” The photo is now trending on Twitter and has more than 300,000 likes. “I don’t know why,’ Stewart tells CNN. “I don’t know why,’ Stewart says. “And I looked at it and I looked so nice because of the sun streaming down. So I snapped the picture and I sent it to the internet. No, I don’t post to cause a stir.”