Putting the Kids First! These Former Celebrity Couples Are Crushing Coparenting

The retired basketball star discussed raising his four kids — Shareef, Amirah, Shaqir and Me’arah — with ex-wife Shaunie O’Neal, who he split from in 2009, exclusively with Us Weekly in March 2019. “It’s a man’s job to protect and provide. That’s it,” he told Us. Shaq also shares daughter Taahirah with ex Arnetta Yardbourgh while Shaunie has a son, Myles, from a previous relationship.

Shaunie told Tamron Hall in March 2021: "We have a great coparenting relationship, seriously. It took us a long time to get there — don't get me wrong, it was not an easy journey — but once we got there, I think we felt comfortable being honest with each other and just sharing what was going on in our personal lives ... to a certain extent."

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"When we were first going through our divorce, there was bickering,” the Masked Singer judge told Extra in March 2021. "And then we used coparenting couples therapy and that really opened the door for communication in a much better way for us.”

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The actress told Women's Health in November 2019 that the key to coparenting is to "drop the ego." Hudson explained, "Some people meet, have kids and end up not being able to figure it out.”

The Golden Globe winner is "really lucky" to have Robinson and Bellamy in her life, she told Women's Health in March 2021. "I've got lots of dads," Hudson said. "I trust them."

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In February 2021, the journalist told Ellen DeGeneres that he and Maisani "actually still live in the same house because [they] get along really well." The CNN anchor explained at the time: "It's weird, but it works out. It was interesting because he wasn’t really sure he wanted to have a kid, which was one of the reasons we probably broke up. But then he came around on the idea, and now he is just such a great parent.”

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"We positioned what could be perceived as a negative into a positive, by saying to the girls, 'Look, now you don't have one house, you have two houses,’” the former professional baseball player said of coparenting his two daughters with Cynthia Scurtis in a January 2021 “Raising the Bar” podcast interview."'You don't have two parents, you have four parents. Lucky you, the more the merrier.'” 

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What's the hardest part of coparenting Mason, Penelope and Reign? “The biggest challenge was just trying to figure out how we separate our relationship as friends and parents and still be on the same page, and what’s, I guess, appropriate and what’s not and when to be able to talk to each other," Disick said in an April 2019 YouTube video. 

Kardashian added: "“The hardest part was when we both started new relationships. That caused fights between you and I about introducing the kids. We literally had to go to therapy to be able to, like, communicate together.” 

In June 2019, the Flip It Like Disick star told Us Weekly exclusively why he chose to work so hard at his coparenting relationship. “The truth is, my problems shouldn’t affect the kids,” he said at the time. “Just because their mother and I couldn’t make it as a perfect, romantic couple, shouldn’t have anything to do with the kids. They don’t deserve our mistakes, so we figured out a way. We still need to be as honest and as good to each other as if we were together. Let’s raise these children together and that’s it.”

The Talentless creator called Kardashian "the best baby maker in town" in December 2020, writing via Instagram: "I couldn’t have asked for a better person in the world to have these amazing children with, I love u and our family more than anything in the world.”

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The Jumper costars took their daughter, Briar, to Disneyland for her birthday in October 2019, one year after Us broke the news of their split.

Bilson exclusively told Us in December 2020 that coparenting was going “pretty well,” explaining, "It’s also nice because you’re stuck in the house [amid the pandemic]. So, for her to have another house to go to, I think that’s actually been helpful. So, all in all, it’s been good.”

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Adonis’ parents "are very happily coparenting together in Toronto with both of them sharing custody,” a source exclusively told Us in December 2020.

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The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City stars were “100 percent private” about their previous separations, Meredith exclusively told Us in November 2020. “Our own children didn't know we were separated living in the same home, raising our kids, trying our best to keep a strong parental front for our children.”

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The Masters of Sex alum opened up in November 2020 about his "difficult" experience coparenting Lily with the actress, explaining, "I had no work visa to stay in America, so every time I left, I had to go back to Britain. I never knew if I would be allowed to come back in again."

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“Whenever he wants to see [True], he can,” the Revenge Body host told Us exclusively in June 2019 of her ex’s relationship with their daughter. “It’s all about the baby! You put your kids as a priority, and they come first. Nothing else matters.”

She echoed this in October 2019, telling Jay Shetty on his “On Purpose” podcast: “It’s hard. It’s not easy for me. It would be easier for me to keep my daughter away and be like, 'No, because you hurt me.' But he never hurt True. Him and I have our own relationship, and then Tristan and True have theirs. I will never come in-between that, I don't believe in that."

The following month, the E! personality wrote on her Instagram Story: “I’m really proud at the coparenting place we’re in."

In an April 2020 KUWTK episode, the Good American cofounder opened up about taking her daughter to Cleveland during Thompson’s NBA season. “Tristan’s been really consistent and present and that’s great, but I haven’t even thought of this part yet,” she told Kris Jenner. “I’m sure he wouldn’t make me do anything I don’t feel comfortable doing, but then is that even fair for True to not see her dad?”

In July 2020, the Revenge Body host said her coparenting relationship with Thompson “surprises the hell” out of her. She told Daily Pop at the time: "We’re doing a great job and I’m really grateful that we’re able to. … I come from a family that … just because people aren’t together doesn’t mean you have to be rude or they’re out of your life.”

The Revenge Body host called coparenting "one of the hardest things" she's ever done in October 2020, telling Ellen DeGeneres: "You have your own personal feelings, but when you can put those aside and you just put your child first — it sounds great when you’re all in love and everything, [but] when you go through something, it’s such a challenge. But to do it, I know how good I feel about myself."

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In her June 2020 Father’s Day message to her ex, the Uncommon James founder wrote via Instagram: “We had a beautiful day together yesterday at my new house. Modern family? Coparenting? Whatever you want to call it, we are navigating it the best way we know how. And what I do know is, our three kids are lucky to have him as their daddy. Hopefully they all three get a smidge of that heart of gold.”

In October 2020, Cavallari exclusively told Us about her and Cutler’s Thanksgiving plans. "I’m happy that we’re able to spend it together and have conversations [about the menu] even though we’re in the middle of getting a divorce,” she said at the time. "So, I’m thankful for where we’re currently at.”

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"Onyx is so loved by his dad and has always had both parents in his life from day one," the Grammy nominee wrote on her October 2020 Instagram Story after revealing her split from the "Magnolia" rapper.

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"We're all coparenting," the model told Extra in October 2020. "They are incredible mothers."

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The Real Housewives of Orange County star exclusively told Us in October 2020 that her ex-husband is “not interested” in coparenting their three daughters. “We’re getting through it,” she said.

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“We’ve always been really good at coparenting,” the model exclusively told Us in October 2020 of raising her son Sebastian with her ex-husband. “Even if you technically still have feelings for that person maybe right after the breakup, it’s not about your feelings, it’s not about what they’re doing in their personal life, it’s about the kids. Wiz and I, we talked about that very early on.”

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Back in 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow famously explained that she was “consciously uncoupling” from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin after 10 years of marriage. Since then, the former pair — who share Apple and Moses — have been the gold standard for coparenting. “He’s really like my brother. We’re very familiar. It’s nice,” the GOOP founder gushed during a January 2018 episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I think we genuinely wanted our kids to be as unscathed as possible. And we thought, if we could really maintain the family even though we weren’t a couple, that was kind of the goal. So that’s what we’ve tried to do.”

Paltrow elaborated on this in January 2020, telling Harper’s Bazaar: “It’s not like there’s a finish line: ‘Oh, we consciously uncoupled; we’re done.’ It’s a lifelong commitment to constantly reinvent your relationship with your ex, which you do presumably because you have children together. … We put all the hard work in at the beginning. I would say very rarely is it difficult now. We’ve learned how to communicate with each other. We love each other. We laugh. We have the best of each other. It’s really nice. It makes you feel like you don’t have to lose.”

In September 2020, the Shakespeare in Love star told Drew Barrymore that coparenting is "harder than it looks," explaining, "We have good days and bad days, but I think it’s driving towards the same purpose of unity and love and what’s best for [our kids]. We have this idea that just because we break up we can’t love the things about the person anymore that we loved, and that’s not true."

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Though their three-year marriage ended in 2016, Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman still celebrate holidays as a family with their daughters Frankie and Olive. In 2017, the Santa Clarita actress referred to their relationship as a “happy, unorthodox union.”

While speaking to Paltrow about coparenting in September 2020, Barrymore said, "None of us want to get it wrong for our kids just because of what happened in the marriage is not about the parenting. This is about their relationship with their dad and their mom, not about their relationship with your marriage.”

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“Coparenting is a journey,” the Side by Side star exclusively told Us in September 2020. “The person that will decide if it was a success is [our son], Ace.”

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"We've always just made [Coco] the No. 1 priority," the actor told Us exclusively in May 2019. "We have respect and love for each other and just [are] on the same page. And [with] Coco, we’re just super lucky. As far as teenagers go, it’s a bit tricky, but she’s got a huge heart and she’s really, really a brilliant girl, so we’re very lucky.”

In August 2020, Arquette told Yahoo! Entertainment that he and Cox had a “really open and supportive” coparenting relationship, explaining, “We never went head-to-head, [or] battled each other, through the process of divorce and through the process of raising our kid. So it’s made for a friendship and relationship that is out of respect.”

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“I’m so incredibly grateful, not only for my ex-husband, but for all of the work that we’ve put in to be able to have the kind of conversations we have to have,” the Big Bang Theory alum exclusively told Us in August 2020 of coparenting her two sons with her ex-husband during the coronavirus pandemic. “We're essentially quarantining together in two houses, meaning we're the only people that we see and our kids go between two houses.”

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“You can’t do anything as a coparent without talking,”the former professional football player told Parents Latina in August 2020 of raising his daughter, Kennedy, with his ex-fiancée. "Even if you're no longer living under the same roof, the discussions still need to happen for the sake of your kid. You have to put your ego aside because it can create turmoil and distraction. The focus should never be on the parents. If your child is happy, then everyone is going to be happy."

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“I will always love her,” the actor said in a May 2020 “…With Brian Austin Green" podcast episode of his estranged wife. “And I know she will always love me and I know as far as a family what we have built is really cool and really special. … [We will] still do family vacations and holidays as a family and really make that a focus for the kids.”

In an August 2020 "Hollywood Raw" podcast episode, Green said he and his estranged wife coparent "day by day," explaining, "There’s no rule book to it. There’s no way of doing it right or doing it wrong.  We are learning as we go. The important thing for us is just communicating as much as we can.”

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The former couple have to “strategize” while coparenting their two kids, Madilyn and Mason, the Keep It Classy author exclusively told Us in July 2020.

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Orlando Bloom gushed to Elle U.K. in 2017 that he and ex-wife Miranda Kerr have a “remarkable relationship” and coparent their son, Flynn, “really well.” The Lord of the Rings actor and the model were married in 2010 and split in 2013.

The model's husband, Evan Spiegel, told WSJ. Magazine in July 2020 that Kerr and Bloom's coparenting relationship was "very different" that most. The Snapchat CEO explained at the time: "I am in no way a replacement for Flynn’s dad. I feel like [I’m part of] Team Flynn."

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“We have a very easy time, I think,” Diggs exclusively told Us of his and his former Rent costar's coparenting dynamic in July 2020. “We never make a wrong step because we're always thinking of Walker first. We both love Walker and want what's best for him. I think once you do that, it allows for things to be a little bit easier.”

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The model exclusively told Us in July 2020 that he “can’t take all the credit” for his son's success, gushing about Jordan's “incredible mom.”

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"We ask [our son], Bear, where he wants to be," the Clueless star told Today in May 2020. "But then I started to wonder if that was too much pressure. So, I checked in with him and he said, 'I love that I get to decide.' We both have different perks!"

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“Her and Hank have been coparenting really well together throughout [the coronavirus pandemic] and have been for a while now,” a source told Us exclusively in May 2020. “She has her weeks on and off with the kids, [Hank and Alijah], and she’s just happy her kids are healthy and in a great place.”

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“We've managed,” the actress, 38, told Us exclusively in May 2020. “We've done so well. It's been 10 years. I'm really proud of how we've always put Violet first and our friendship goes along with that as well, but we get along great.”

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“While we're figuring everything out, we've just got to be the best parents in the world and just make sure we're there for [Melody and Epik],” the “Sexy Can I” singer told Us exclusively in May 2020.

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“We’re doing things very differently,” the actress told PorterEdit of her relationship with her ex-husband in August 2019. “I’m pretty proud of us, corny as that may sound. We’ve made it our absolute priority to be good and kind to each other and we’re absolutely committed to that.”

The former couple reunited in May 2020 to film a TikTok dance with their kids amid quarantine.

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In May 2020, the Baby Phat founder spoke to Us exclusively about how she’s worked with the record executive to coparent their daughters Ming and Aoki. “I’m kind of in the captain’s chair when it comes to [the] parenting of all [our] children,” she explained at the time. “I’m the one that’s usually in the captain’s seat and then everybody kind of defers to me. That sounds sick. Oh, really. But that’s the truth.”

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“There’s a lot that the kids don’t know about their dad, and I want to keep it that way,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star said of the actor during an April 2020 episode of the Bravo show. “Even though he’s Charlie Sheen, that is still, to them, their dad. I never talk badly about him and I want him to be part of their lives because I met a lot of the women that Charlie entertained and a lot of them had father-daughter issues. And I do not want that to be our girls.”

In May 2020, Richards told Us exclusively that communication with her ex-husband while coparenting has been "great." She added, "[My husband] Aaron [Phypers] and I actually saw him the other day.”

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“We’ve come to a very good place,” the “Listen to Me, The OG Mama D With Dina Lohan and Chanel Omari” podcast host told Us exclusively in May 2020 of her coparenting relationship with her ex-husband. “My children are older. When they were younger, I had sole custody and whatnot, but they’re older now and need a relationship with both parents because that’s important.”

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“You know, we both manage to feed them and get them to school on time, more or less!” the Bush musician exclusively told Us in May 2019, reflecting on how he and the No Doubt singer coparent sons Kingston, Zuma and Apollo. “They are doing really good. They’re really happy, and that’s it. We’re doing the best we can.”

In an April 2020 Trunk Nation appearance, Rossdale said that coparenting is “tricky” for divorced parents amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I did the first two weeks with them, then they went to Oklahoma,” he said of his and Stefani’s sons. "I think it’s OK for now, but it’s a real big dilemma for parents and kids with split custody.”

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After their 2000 divorce, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis kept things as normal as possible for their daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. “I never had to split up vacations or split up birthdays,” Rumer revealed on Larry King Now in 2015. “They always made an effort to do all of the family events still together and made such an effort to still have our family be as one unit, as opposed to two separate things, which I think really made an impact.”

The former couple self-quarantined with their daughters for four weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic, the actress revealed via Instagram in April 2020. The exes even matched with their brood in green striped pajamas.

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“I am trying to coparent the best that I can,” the 16 and Pregnant alum told Us exclusively in March 2020. “I see James fairly a lot. I get a lot of people tell[ing] me after my days with him: ‘I can tell that you saw James today because you just have that smile on your face.’ When I hear that, I’m like, ‘Yeah. It’s just the truth.’”

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“My main focus when I’m with her is just to give her my all, all my attention and try to explain things to her,” the Hills: New Beginnings star told Us exclusively of coparenting her daughter, Kirra, with Bohan. “It’s important not to talk bad or about the other parent in front of them. Keep it kid-friendly at all times. There’s a time and place for that.”

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“I don’t think there is a trick,” Buonfiglio told Us exclusively in September 2019. “I just think [with] coparenting, you have to constantly work at it and know that, at the end of the day, it’s about the kids. [That’s] what’s most important.”

As for Stanton, she told Us in February 2020: "I think it’s just about putting your kids first and doing what’s best for them. You kind of have to put your pride aside. We both love [our] girls. It works out. "It’s taken some time, but it’s been, like, six years and we kind of have it down now.”

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"It will be 50/50, but it's not a point of contention,” a source told Us exclusively in October 2019 of the former couple's custody plans. “It's really whatever is best for Stormi. Travis knows what an incredible mom Kylie is and will make whatever situation work."

In February 2020, Jenner told Harper's Bazaar about her "great" relationship with her ex, explaining, "We’re, like, best friends. We both love [our daughter] Stormi and want what’s best for her. We stay connected and coordinated. I think about [my parents, Kris Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner] in situations with Stormi, what they would do. They were very hands-on with me, and I want the same for Stormi.”

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The Grammy winner and the record producer celebrated her 40th birthday with their son in January 2020. “We make blended families work,” Aguilera wrote on Instagram at the time. “It’s a beautiful thing.”

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“I was with my kids 24/7, and the idea of not having them 24/7 was terrifying — completely terrifying,” the blogger said during a January 2020 interview on The Weather Channel’s Local Now streaming service. “Each little step of letting them go and spend time with their dad has been easier and easier because I know I’ve raised them and they’re gonna be OK.”

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The former couple spent Christmas together with their two kids one month after announcing their split. “We’ve been having a really relaxed and slow [day], just spending time the five of us,” the pregnant actress captioned a December 2019 Instagram photo, taken by the NBC sports analyst. “It’s been awesome. And my house looks like a toy and trash bomb went off. And I’m not even mad about it.”

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The Challenge alums spent Christmas 2019 with their daughter, Ryder, and Wharton's pregnant girlfriend, Taylor Selfridge. "Merry Christmas from my crazy blended family to yours," Floyd captioned an Instagram upload at the time.

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“They harbor no ill will towards each other and will continue to coparent their kids,” a source told Us exclusively in December 2019 following the Real Housewives of New Jersey stars’ split.

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“At the end of the day, I'll say, it's not about the parents, it's about the kids,” the Flip or Flop alum told Us Weekly exclusively in April 2019 of coparenting with his ex-wife, Christina Anstead. “The most important job in the world is being a good parent.” He and the Christina on the Coast star share daughter Taylor and son Brayden.

In December 2019, the Christina on the Coast star advised that divorced parents "never say anything bad about the other parent" while raising kids.

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“[We] are really best friends,” the Real Housewives of Miami alum told Us exclusively in December 2019. “Our kids are amazing, and I feel like we both parent the same way. We’re really traditional in the way we raise our children. That’s really important.”

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“I think the new year especially, and the new decade, is a great way to kind of launch positive thinking and the law of attraction,” the former Bravo personality told Us of her coparenting relationship with the athlete following their split. “I don’t know. New beginnings are huge, so I’m looking forward to that.”

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"The key [to coparenting] is basically communication,” the Real Blac Chyna star told Us Weekly exclusively in July 2019 of raising Cairo and Dream with her exes. “It makes it a little bit easier if you can communicate with your child’s other parent. That’s the best and healthiest way.”

The model told Us exclusively in December 2019 that coparenting is going "great," explaining, “They do give me that break so I can rejuvenate myself as a woman and just get back focus. Or, if I have to do something, it just gives me that leeway. So, that’s, I think, key.”

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“I’m the strict one; Liam isn’t,” Cole told The Telegraph in April 2019 of raising their son, Bear. “He is much softer than me. But it is what it is, and I'm OK about it. When you have a baby, you are not consumed with just thinking about yourself. It's your responsibility to keep things settled and happy, so you make the best of everything. And we have."

In December 2019, the singer opened up about his plans to visit Bear and Cole for the holidays. “I like to do Sunday roasts,” Payne said on the ITV show This Morning. “[I'm] going to go down and cook some good food and hang out.”

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The former 'NSync member and his high school sweetheart are taking coparenting "one step at a time," Fatone told Us exclusviely in November 2019. “Sometimes we'll try to do things together, sometimes we won't, depending on where we are, what we're doing. A lot of times we'll switch on and off and it actually is not bad. … It could get ugly, [but] that's not what we did.”

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The former couple spent Thanksgiving 2019 together, along with Carey’s boyfriend, Bryan Tanaka.

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“We’re figuring it out,” the former World of Dance host said during an October 2019 panel of raising her and Tatum’s daughter, Everly. “I'm really lucky that I have an incredible partner. Steve [Kazee] is absolutely amazing … to be there with [me] and help [me] through all this.”

In November 2019, Tatum requested a set schedule for custody of Everly. “I think it would be beneficial for us to work with a coparenting counselor to help assist us with such scheduling related matters, so that we can more easily schedule our work and other commitments, and avoid any confusion or conflict regarding the same,” the Magic Mike star said in paperwork filed in Los Angeles at the time. He explained his goal “to establish clear and specific orders regarding our holiday and travel schedule and other custody related matters.” 

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"[The secret is] time and knowing when to let things go for the greater good,” the comedian told Us exclusively of coparenting his daughter, Maile, in November 2019. “[Mandie] is the most amazing woman in the world and one of the most amazing moms, I think, that has ever walked the planet. Our daughter's proof of that and the fact that she slaps me into shape. She's the reason I think that I've had the success I have."

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“We talk and text weekly,” the Botched star told Us exclusively in November 2019 of his relationship with the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum. “Even as the kids are getting older, we’re still doing things, talking about basketball, this and that, school. We have a parent-teacher conference coming up this week, so we’ll both be there.” Nassif added, “Everything’s going fine. We’re getting along very well. As a matter of fact, she congratulated [Brittany Pattakos and me] after we got married, and we just went to a little Halloween event at her house.”

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The Real Housewives of Atlanta star told Us exclusively after her split from the restaurant owner: “I’ve had a husband who is helping me raise our child together and I’m thankful that he was in our lives consistently for a great period of time since Brooklyn was born.” She and Daly celebrated their little one’s 1st birthday together in November 2019.

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“I don't think I have all the answers on anything. I think it's important to listen and to give people balance,” the Fall Out Boy member told Us exclusively of coparenting in October 2019, adding that his ex-wife is "a great mom."

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“Our daughter is our primary concern and we remain committed to coparenting her together,” the Brothers & Sisters alums said in a statement to Us following their October 2019 split.

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“I mean, it comes and goes,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star told Entertainment Tonight in October 2019 of raising sons Mason and Jake with the actor and his wife, LeAnn Rimes. “We’ll have a fight one week, and then we won’t.”

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"It’s not like anything atrocious happened between us that would result in us not being able to be friends or not being able to coparent or whatever the future may hold for us,” the Shahs of Sunset star told Us exclusively in October 2019, nearly two months after her estranged husband filed for divorce. “I think when two people are married ... even if the relationship ends or goes sour, as long as they remember that moment when it was good, they’ll always be able to be friends especially if there’s a child involved."

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"Communication [is key]," the This Is Us star told Us exclusively in September 2019 of raising his 15-year-old daughter, Isabella, with his former Passions costar. "It's nothing new. Communication and an understanding where everyone's coming from and realizing that it's hard. As much as you try to put yourself in other people's shoes, you're never fully going to be able to do it, but you should just make the effort.”

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“Everything is amicable and we have beautiful children together that are that way because we were the parents,” the producer told Us and other reporters in September 2019 after his split from the New Girl star. “We've been raising them and we’re going to continue to raise them and take great care of them.”

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“I want to be friends with Kevin and not because we have a son, but because that was real love,” the Wendy Williams Show host said on an August 2019 episode of Sirius XM’s Sway in the Morning. “I still love him, just not in that way. You’re either in or you are out with me. I still have love for him and I wish him the best in his new life with his new family.”

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“Coparenting has been getting much easier and we have a very friendly relationship and do things as a family together which makes the kids very happy,” the two-time dad explained to Page Six in April 2019 after Farley opened up about her 24-year-old boyfriend. “Wish [Jenni] nothing but positive things.” The exes share daughter Meilani and son Greyson.

In July 2019, the former couple celebrated their daughter’s 5th birthday together, alongside Farley’s boyfriend, Zack Clayton Carpinello.

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The Food Network star and the fashion designer reunited to celebrate their daughter Jade’s 2019 graduation. The former couple ate at Nobu Malibu.

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They get by with a little help from an app. “Brad and Angie have been coparenting, utilizing OurFamilyWizard, which has probably been one of the most beneficial tools for their family in terms of keeping things moving forward in the best amicable terms possible,” a source told Us in June 2019. “Once Brad and Angie began using the platform, it allowed them to coordinate the kids' schedules. They have very busy lives.”

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“I do what I can to invest time in the three of us, because there’s nothing that’s more like home to our daughter than the three of us being together,” Brandon told Us exclusively in May 2019 of his estranged wife and their daughter, Eva. “I’m sure it’s more difficult for other people, [but] for us it’s pretty good and natural and easy because we’re just really good friends first. We were friends before we were a couple and so now that we’re back to being friends, we’re able to do this [because] it’s familiar.”

He added: “We just have something to celebrate, which is this awesome little girl.”

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“Right now, it’s good,” the Flipping Out star said of his visitation schedule with Edward on his Sirius XM show, Jeff Lewis Live, in May 2019. “I don’t think we need attorneys at this point. He understands that we need some kind of structure." Since their schedules change so much, the ex-pair plan out each week ahead of time.

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 “He’s a great dad and we have such mutual respect. He’s a solid man and I still love him in a way that will always be there,” the Dancing With the Stars winner told Us Weekly exclusively of her ex-husband in April 2019. Burke and Charvet share daughter Heaven and son Shaya.

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The Saturday Night Live star and model welcomed Ireland in 1995, then split in 2002, and Alec has since married Hilaria Baldwin. "My relationship with [Ireland] has been so successful because I never tried to step in as her mommy," the yoga instructor wrote on Instagram in April 2019. "She has a good mother, who I have tremendous respect for...and I put myself in Kim’s shoes: if my children ever had a stepmother, I’d want her to let me be number one. ... We have never had a fight or a bad moment. Nor have I with her mother."

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The Teen Mom 2 star welcomed twin girls, Aliannah and Aleeah, in 2009 with then-boyfriend Simms, followed by Adalynn in 2013 with then-husband Calvert. When it comes to coparenting her three daughters, she told Us in April 2019 that the most important thing is “putting the kids’ interest first.”

The reality star added: “You have to put your pride to the side and know that the children that are involved, it’s their best interest that matters. At the end of the day, I know it’s hard to get to that place, but … it shouldn’t be that hard [with] open communication.”

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Though their decade-long relationship ended in 2018, the Nashville alum and former pro boxer coparent like pros. “We’re still respectful of each other, and we still have that friendship with each other,” Panettiere admitted to Us Weekly exclusively in January 2019. “It’s not a situation that you find yourself in all that often, so it’s a new one. But I think we’ve done a really good job.” The actress and her ex-fiancé welcomed their daughter, Kaya, in 2014.

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Ben Affleck revealed in 2017 that he and ex-wife Jennifer Garner “don’t always agree” on parenting — she’s strict about phones and computer use, he’s not — but they have learned to work through their differences. “You have to be on the same page. You have to cooperate,” the Batman actor told Today. “We’re the only two people in the world who care this much about these three kids.” 

The pair, who share Violet, Seraphina and Samuel, split in 2015 after 10 years of marriage.

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Anna Faris and Chris Pratt always put their son, Jack, first. The Mom star told Us Weekly in January 2018 that she and The Guardians of the Galaxy actor always make sure that Jack is “surrounded by a lot of love and happiness." The exes announced their separation in 2017 after eight years of marriage.

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Rapper Swizz Beatz and his former spouse Mashonda Tifrere made peace for the sake of their son, Kaseem, after their 2010 divorce. In 2018, Tifrere published Blended, a book about peaceful coparenting! Beatz wrote a chapter and his wife, Alicia Keys, penned the forward.

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Jennifer Lopez is proud of the example she and former husband Marc Anthony are setting for their twins Max and Emme. “We’re just in a really great place, and the kids get to spend time with the two of us more together and see us working together,” the pop star revealed on Live With Kelly in 2017. “We’re always gonna be great friends. I’m always gonna be there for him, he’s always gonna be there for me.” The singers parted ways in 2011 after seven years of marriage.

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