All About Martha Stewart's Daughter Alexis Stewart

Mar. 15, 2025

No matter what,Martha Stewartand her daughter have got each other’s backs.

“Our relationship has always been adifficult mother-daughter relationship,” the entrepreneur and host told PEOPLE in 2020 about her daughter, Alexis Stewart, her only child with ex-husband Andrew Stewart. “Difficult, but she would do anything for me, and I would do anything for her.”

Despite it all, the pair remain supportive of each other.

“She’s her own person,” Martha wrote in her daughter’s book. “She makes up her own mind. I sometimes try to offer advice, but if it’s not taken, so be it. She really did pay attention. She really does know how to do everything.”

Keep reading for everything to know about Martha Stewart’s daughter, Alexis Stewart.

She was born in New York City in 1965

Alexis Gilbert Stewart was born in N.Y.C. on Sept. 27, 1965, to Martha and her then-husband,Andrew Stewart. The couple had wed about four years prior when Martha was 19 years old. “It was very nice to be a mother, a wife, a working woman,” Martha later toldLarry Kingduring an appearance onLarry King Live.Alexis grew up spending time in both Manhattan and in Massachusetts' Berkshires, where the family had a home, before attending boarding school in Vermont.

She later attended Barnard College, her mother’s alma mater, graduating with a degree in English.

Her parents divorced in 1990

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According toa PEOPLE cover storypublished a few years after their split, Martha’s growing fame contributed to the demise of their relationship.

While speaking with PEOPLE, Andrew named their parenting dynamic as one of his regrets from the marriage.

“I think we did a poor job as parents,” he said. “We were too involved in our professional lives and fixing up the house. We were always making the home into a mythological place. But it wasn’t a home — we didn’t spend enough time with Lexi.”

Andrew added that he never had a chance to “discuss the separation with Alexis,” which led to their estrangement. “She saw her mother hurt, and she thought I was uncaring. One way or another, she got the facts wrong as well as the interpretation,” he said.

She’s made harsh claims about her childhood

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In 2011,Alexis published a tell-all book,Whateverland: Learning to Live Here, which she co-authored with Jennifer Koppelman Hutt. The memoir made bombshell accusations about Alexis' childhood, particularly her mother’s parenting style.

“Martha does everything better! You can’t win,” she wrote. “If I didn’t do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.”

When it came to holidays, Alexis said her mother was “not interested in being kid-friendly.”

“She used to make me wrap my own presents,” she recalled. “She would hand me things right before Christmas and say, ‘Now wrap these but don’t look inside.'”

On Halloween: “There were no costumes. There was no anything. We turned off all the lights and pretended we weren’t home.”

Alexis also accused her mother of being a hoarder who had “a very hands-off approach to child rearing” and wrote that she refused to buy her a bra when she hit puberty, among other things.

She and Martha are “incredibly close”

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By all accounts, Martha and Alexis’ relationship is full of ups and downs, but they continue to publicly support each other. Despite the allegations inWhateverland: Learning to Live Here, Alexis dedicated it to her mother, who even contributed to the book.

In a 1995 PEOPLE cover story, a friend of Martha’s described her and Alexis' relationship as cordial. “It’s tough being Martha Stewart’s daughter, and Alexis is very private,” he said. “But they’re truly close, and Alexis hates it when people criticize Martha.”

While promoting her book in 2011, AlexistoldToday’sSavannah Guthriethat she felt many of the quotes about her mother were “taken out of context.”

“They’re funny,” she said. “Everyone has stories like this from their lives.”

Alexis continued: “We’re incredibly close and we’re both very opinionated people. So while we can be together having a nice time we can also have an animated discussion slash argument about something. Because that’s normal. So if we agree on everything, how boring would that be?”

She learned how to cook from her mother

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In a 2020 interview with PEOPLE, Martha Stewart said that starting her own business made it difficult for her to be a present parent when Alexis was young, but that she and her daughter were able to bond over cooking.

“After I gave up stock-brokering, I started an at-home catering business, which was extremely time-consuming,” she recalled. “One thing Alexis learned from that was how to cook. She’s a phenomenal cook and baker. I tried to involve her in everything, but the minute she could leave home and go to boarding school, she did.”

She was married to lawyer John Cuti

The pair separated in 2003 and divorced in 2004. Before their divorce was finalized, Cuti served as a trial lawyer for his mother-in-law Martha’s insider trading case. In July 2004, she wassentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement and two years of supervised probation.

She’s spoken publicly about her fertility journey

Prior to having her children, Alexis underwent fertility treatments to conceive. In an appearance onThe Oprah Winfrey Showin 2007, three years after divorcing her ex-husband, she shared that she was spending up to $27,000 each month for IVF procedures and an additional $6,000 for medications.

At the time, Alexis had endured three failed embryo transfers but remained hopeful.

“When I have to think about my other options, then I will do that,” she said. “But at the moment, I can only think about this option.”

She also noted that her mother “desperately” wanted grandchildren and provided her with both financial and emotional support.

“She’s very supportive,” Alexis said. “She tells me it will happen all the time.”

She’s a mom of two

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In 2011, after five years of fertility treatments,Alexis welcomed her first childat age 45, a daughter named Jude, who was born via gestational surrogate.

“Getting Jude was lucky,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “I’m happy, but this has been rough.”

Almost exactly one year later, in 2012,Alexis welcomed her second childvia gestational surrogate, a son named Truman.

In celebration of Jude’s 12th birthday in March 2023, Martha shared arare glimpse of her granddaughter.

In February 2024, Martha took Truman to aNew York Knicks gameat Madison Square Garden. The pair sat courtside next to actorPaul Wesley.

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She and Martha purchased a duplex in New York City together

In May 2024, Alexis and Martha closed on a$12.3 million duplex in the Belnord— a luxury residential building on the Upper West Side that doubles as a filming location for Hulu’sOnly Murders in the Building.

Alexis fainted at Martha’s 2004 trial

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In 2004, Martha was found guilty of obstruction and conspiracy charges related to a stock sale.

“My daughter,she fainted when they read the verdict. Poor child,” the mogul recalled in Netflix’sMartha. Alexis added: “It was so horrifying and incomprehensible. And then I woke up and was, unfortunately, still there.”

source: people.com