United Kingdom, March 7 -- Martha Stewart gave birth to her daughter Alexis Stewart in a hallway of a New York hospital.

Medical staff were oblivious that the 84-year-old lifestyle guru was in active labour and thought she had more time before she welcomed TV presenter Alexis into the world in September 1965.

Martha - who has her daughter with ex-husband Andrew Stewart - recalled to The Sunday Times newspaper: "It happened very fast, so I was hardly in the hospital gown, but I remember that miserable hospital gown very well.

"I gave birth in the hallway because they didn't believe that I was giving birth, they thought I had more time."

Elsewhere, Martha - who divorced Andrew in 1990 after almost three decades of marriage - said she an...