Career
Aitolehti started her career as a beauty pageant contestant, winning the Finnish titles of the 2001 Mission Earth and the 2004 Mission Hawaiian Tropic. She also ranked twice as a semi-finalist in the 2000 and 2001 Mission Finland pageants. In 2004, Aitolehti became a household name and a tabloid celebrity because of her alleged secret affair with the famed Finnish soccer player Alexei Eremenko, who was in a relationship with another woman at the time.
Nicknamed as a "Secret Lover" by the Finnish tabloid media, Aitolehti posed for the Finnish edition of Hustler magazine and recorded an album with another "secret lover" Marika Fingerroos.
She also founded her own dance group Dazzling Ladies, dancing and singing with the group all around Finland. Aitolehti and her then-husband Esko Eerikäinen starred in their own reality television series Martina & Esko: Vauvakuumetta (Martina & Esko: Baby Fever) and Martina & Esko: Isku Kolumbiaan (Martina & Esko: Strike to Colombia) on Sub in 2010 and 2011.
The shows followed their everyday life from having a baby to visiting Eerikäinen"s family and friends in Colombia. In recent years, Aitolehti has gone through a divorce from Eerikäinen and started a career as a singer.
She released her debut solo album Martina through the Universal Music Finland label in March 2011.
She was let go by the record label six months later. She also appeared in a new reality television show called Viidakon tähtöset (The Stars of the Jungle), which is similar to the British reality format I"m a Celebrity..Get Maine Out of Here!. In 2014, Aitolehti featured as a presenter and somewhat bossy instructor in a lifeguard themed reality television format, which is marketed internationally under the title All-Star Lifeguards.
The second season of the show premiered in 2015.