Celebrity Couples With and Without Prenuptial Agreements (2024)

After the proposal, celebrity couples often have another major question to ask one another: Should we get a prenuptial agreement?

"We have a prenup, prenups are ... do you know what kind of day and age this is? Everybody needs a prenup!" Khloé Kardashian told E! News in June 2011, referring to her then-husband, Lamar Odom. "I mean, I don't care if you make $5 or $5 million, in this day and age ... people are crazy, you never know. And when you have businesses together, like we do, you have to protect yourself. It doesn't mean you don't love them."

A prenuptial agreement — or prenup — is a contract drawn up by the couple before they get married that typically lists their assets and specifies how everything will be divided up in the event of a divorce. However, not all celebrities agree to sign a prenup when they decide to tie the knot.

Keep scrolling to learn which celebrity couples did and did not have a prenup:

The HGTV star secretly wed Josh, her third marriage, in 2022 but they didn’t sign an agreement. After the pair split in July 2024, Us Weekly exclusively confirmed that Christina and Josh did not have a prenup. In the court documents, Josh requested an equitable division of assets to Christina’s chagrin.

“I have worked my ass off to build this life for myself and my children and anyone who would try and take what they do not deserve / what they did NOT work for should be ashamed,” Christina claimed in an Instagram Story statement. “An insecure man with a large ego can sure try to derail you — but ‘still I rise.’”

The Golden Bachelor couple, who split in April 2024 after three months of marriage, did sign a prenup.

"No prenup, so yeah, unfortunately," the Bravo star told TMZ in January 2023 about her ongoing divorce from Daly. The former couple originally announced their split in May 2021.

The Love Is Blind season 3 couple revealed in December 2022 they did not sign a prenup.

“No, we never had one. I also never asked for one,” Alfia explained during an Instagram Q&A. “It’s something that Brennon brought up and asked about getting one to protect me. It’s just something I wasn’t interested in doing.”

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star wed Ruelas in August 2022, ultimately deciding not to sign a prenuptial agreement.

“[It’s] true love,” she explained of their decision during a BravoCon taping of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

A legal insider confirmed to Us in September 2021 that the couple had "no legal document in place to establish their separate property and financial rights in the event of a divorce."

The "Hollaback Girl" performer didn't have a prenup in place when she married Rossdale in September 2002, making both musicians legally entitled to an equal half of the money they made during their 13-year relationship. When they split in August 2015, a source told Us that the Bush frontman agreed to an "unequal split" of their assets, giving Stefani more money.

Before she and Blake Shelton tied the knot in July 2021, however, the No Doubt frontwoman made sure an agreement was in place. “They have been in prenup talks for a few months,” a source told Us in November 2020. “The process has been extremely effortless.”

When the Open Book author married the former boy band member in October 2002, she was "offended" by the prospect of getting a prenup, she later told Dr. Oz. However, once the couple called it quits three years later, Simpson felt that she had made a mistake by not getting one. “I wish I would’ve signed a prenup,” she said during her February 2020 appearance on the show.

“I feel like people look at [prenups] as like a dirty thing that we shouldn’t talk about, but honestly, I feel like there is some romanticism to it," the Vanderpump Rules alum told Page Six in February 2020. "Being able to be so close to someone that you’re willing to have those uncomfortable conversations ... it’s brought me closer to Beau the more that we talk about it."

The reality star claimed that Joe was the one who "made [her] sign a prenup" before their 1999 wedding on a January 2020 episode of Real Housewives of New Jersey. "A week before we were getting married, Joe asked me to sign a prenup and I just felt when you love someone, you don’t do that," she explained, noting that she almost called off the wedding as a result. "Being Italian, I have old-school parents, and it’s an embarrassing thing to call off a wedding."

Teresa added: "I didn’t even read it, I just said, ‘I want you to put one thing in there. If you ever cheat, the prenup is void.'"

The Bring it On star didn't have any legal agreements in place when she married NFL player Chris Howard in 2001 and she was determined not to make the same mistake twice. (They split in 2006.) "The biggest difference between this and the last marriage will be a prenup – at my insistence,” Union told Arsenio Hall in February 2014, after getting engaged to the NBA player. “When you have your own stuff, you don't need to worry about anyone else's stuff. So everyone should go into the relationship knowing 'I'm here for you and you're here for me.' And the reality is, I’ve never seen Dwyane balance a checkbook.”

She continued: "I've got to protect my stuff. It's the wave of the future, protecting your stuff."

"I said 'No, I don't want a prenup,' but I really wanted a prenup. Really bad. But I said no, I don't want one," Shepard told Conan O'Brien about the discussions he had with Bell ahead of their October 2013 wedding. something good came over me for once and I made the right decision. But the joke is now on her because she's become much more successful than me and has much more money than me."

The Good American cofounder is a strong advocate for prenups. "Everybody needs a prenup!" she told E! News in June 2011. "I mean, I don't care if you make $5 or $5 million, in this day and age ... people are crazy, you never know. And when you have businesses together, like we do, you have to protect yourself. It doesn't mean you don't love them."

Kardashian and Odom got married in September 2009 and their divorce was finalized in December 2016.

The "Pineapple Express" star's business manager recommended that he get a prenup before marrying Lauren Miller in October 2011 — but he decided against it. "Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions, then it'll be the best millions I've spent," he told Howard Stern in January 2011.

In this article