Hilaria Baldwin Details “Last Minute” Decision to Join DWTS

Hilaria Baldwin had to quick step it out to Los Angeles for Dancing With the Stars.

The Yoga Vida founder—who lives in New York with husband Alec Baldwin and their kids Carmen, 11, Rafael, 10 Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 7, Eduardo, 4, María Lucía, 4, and Ilaria, 2—revealed that she didn’t have much time to prepare herself before joining the reality competition series for season 34.

“I just signed up for this right before it started, because it was not on my radar at all,” she exclusively told E! News correspondent Will Marfuggi following the Sept. 16 DWTS premiere. “So it was one of these lit last-minute things where I guess people were calling into the show, and then Dancing With the Stars reached out to me, and then I was on a plane a couple days later, and I was like, ‘What am I doing?'”

“I moved my whole family here, and I was like, ‘What am I doing?'” Hilaria went on. “And I had to find a house. I signed the contract as I’m getting off the plane before bags, chasing my two year old, who was pushing our babies in her pretend little stroller.”