Hilaria Baldwin Admits to 'Not Quite Understanding' What a Prenup Was Before Marrying Alec Baldwin but Said She'd 'Just Sign It' Anyway

Mar. 15, 2025

Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin attend a HamptonsFilm SummerDocs screening on July 20, 2024.Photo:Sonia Moskowitz/Getty

Sonia Moskowitz/Getty

Hilaria Baldwindidn’t exactly know what she was getting herself into during the early days of her marriage toAlec Baldwin.

During the Sunday, Feb. 23 premiere of the couple’s new reality series,The Baldwins, Hilaria, 41, and Alec, 66, reflected on the conversation they had about a prenup before their 2012 wedding — a topic Alec brought up given his first marriage toKim Basingerhad failed.

“She wasn’t happy about it. It’s an awkward thing,” Alec recalled in a confessional, and Hilaria said she did “not quite understand what a prenup” was when he asked her.

“Because you are like, ‘After a certain number of kids, it’s this.' And I was like, ‘You know what? I’ll just sign it,’ which was probably very stupid of me back then.”

Hilaria Baldwin and Alec Baldwin at The Museum Gala on December 1, 2022 in New York City.Nina Westervelt/Variety via Getty

Nina Westervelt/Variety via Getty

During the couple’s recent PEOPLE interview about the TLC series, they shared that they did not sign a prenup before their marriage, as Alec joked, “Can you imagine having a prenup with her?”

“We did not sign a prenup because — I said I would, and then you’re like, ‘Okay, we don’t have to,'” Hilaria said.

Alec then alleged that she “started to cry a little bit,” to which his wife rebuffed, “Oh, my God, I did not cry.” She also joked that signing one would go “against my gold-digging values,” poking fun at speculation over the nature of her and Alec’s relationship.

During the premiere ofThe Baldwins,the couple also touched on the significant impact that theRusttrial has had on their family.

“The past three years has been a significant chunk of my children’s lives. Our older ones were much younger, but have had the awareness because of their age to be able to understand what’s going on. The youngest three don’t know a life without this,” Hilaria said in a confessional of the “stressful” times for her and Alec’sseven kids.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin and their children Ilaria, Eduardo, Leonardo, Maria, Romeo, Rafael and Carmen at the 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival.Sonia Moskowitz/Getty

“Everything was so different before this happened,” Alec said. “Our lives are very, very different. Our children have been forced to recognize that. They’ve been forced to deal with that, with us, in their own way.”

“They’ve had some really unfortunate realizations about things that are going on. Life will forever be different,” Hilaria said. “Halyna lost her life in the most unthinkable tragedy, a son lost his mom. We are going to feel and carry this pain forever. This will be a part of our family story.”

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New episodes ofThe Baldwinsair Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.

source: people.com