Does Martha Stewart Have Kids?

Martha Stewart has one child—a daughter named Alexis Stewart, born in 1965, who she shares with her former husband, Andrew Stewart. Although Martha Stewart shared in a 2024 interview with People magazine that she has not spoken to the father of her only child in over 20 years, the lifestyle maven reportedly still has a very tight relationship with her daughter. "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?" Alexis Stewart told TODAY in 2011.

If you haven’t yet watched the 2024 Netflix documentary Martha, you probably should, if for no other reason than her refreshingly honest take on motherhood. In the documentary, Stewart revealed that, contrary to the popular belief that all women are inherently maternal, motherhood felt “not at all natural” for her and was quite disruptive to her life. Her daughter has described Stewart’s parenting style as very hands-off and sometimes even chilly. 

Both Martha Stewart and her daughter have been very candid about the highs and lows of their relationship: “Our relationship has always been a difficult mother-daughter relationship. Difficult, but she would do anything for me, and I would do anything for her,” Martha Stewart told People in 2018.

Yes, she is! Alexis Stewart welcomed two children of her own into the world via gestational surrogacy—Jude Stewart, who was born in March of 2011 and Truman Stewart, born in March of 2012. Despite Martha Stewart’s own challenges adapting to motherhood, she has publicly praised Alexis for being “the perfect mother” and openly shared that she has found that the role of grandmother comes far more naturally to her. Mazel, Martha.