revised agreement<\/a> he pushed for seems to have taken things to the worst possible place.<\/h2>\nWell, it went to the worst place because I agreed to change it. So if I hadn\u2019t agreed to change it, it probably would have been the best-case scenario for me because I would have kept what I came into the marriage with, and we would have split what was earned during the marriage. But as you read, I put my assets into joint name, and he did not. I try not to talk about the prenup that much because I am not a trust and estates lawyer and I\u2019m not an accountant, but I do think it\u2019s really important to have these conversations before you get married, whether you sign a prenup or not.<\/p>\n\n\nRelated Story<\/span>Did the prenup ever cross your mind when you put both your names on the houses you bought with your money?<\/h2>\n I did think about it. I just thought that we were going to share everything. I thought that when he started earning money, that he would share that with me. It didn\u2019t occur to me that he wouldn\u2019t. The prenup said that we would share anything that we put into joint name. So I assumed that he would share his assets, and I can\u2019t go into more detail about that.<\/p>\n
When you used your trust money to buy the family homes, do you think (maybe even subconsciously) you were trying to correct a power imbalance tied to your inherited wealth?<\/h2>\n I was conscious of the power imbalance, and I never wanted him to feel less than. I think we try to build men up, and so often that is around finances and them being in charge of finances, but I think my decision to put our homes in joint name was really from a place of love and an intention to share everything.<\/p>\n
What do you hope readers will take away from the book?<\/h2>\n I hope that women who are going through something similar feel less alone. I think that\u2019s probably my most important thing. I hope that it makes people understand a little bit more the emotional damage that is left behind sometimes when marriages end. I hope that both my contemporaries, older and younger, take it as a wake-up call about really paying attention to their finances.<\/p>\n
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite descending from New York royalty, Belle Burden lived a quiet, happy life out of the spotlight for 53 years. As much as a Vanderbilt heiress could anyway. Then she blew it all up with a viral \u201cModern Love\u201d essay detailing her hedge-fund husband of 20 years abruptly leaving her and their three kids at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2346176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[310910,455132,285977,286903,285684,455134,455131,455133],"class_list":["post-2346175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-content-type-feature","tag-contentid-92fbd397-1a69-4e31-a1ae-aa8b485531be","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-8","tag-shorttitle-belle-burdens-divorce-memoir-has-everyone-talking","tag-subsection-what-to-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Belle-Burden-on-Strangers-Success-Gwyneth-Paltrow-and-Divorce-Finances.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346177,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346175\/revisions\/2346177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}