Challenge’s Cheyenne Floyd and Cory Wharton’s Coparenting Ups and Downs Over the Years

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Challenge's Cheyenne Floyd and Cory Wharton's Coparenting Ups and Downs Over the Years

Putting their parenting to the test! Exes Cheyenne Floyd and Cory Wharton have been maintaining an amicable relationship while raising daughter Ryder. The Los Angeles native gave birth to her baby girl in April 2017, but her fellow Challenge alum wasn't immediately told he was the father as they only spent one night together. "Once I found out I had a kid, my whole life changed. It's a feeling inside of yourself that there's a bigger purpose,” the Michigan native exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2017. “Now I'm doing everything for my daughter, instead of for myself. I had to put somebody before myself for the first time. I feel like I've got my power pack, like I'm untouchable with my kid. I have her and that's all the love I need in the world. It gave me a sense of purpose. I never thought I could love anybody more than myself and I do!” The Real World alum went on to call Ryder a “blessing,” gushing that he needed her “more” than she needed him. "She has an amazing family in Cheyenne's family, and I'm just glad that now we can give her two families and give her all the love that we can,” the personal trainer said at the time. "Becoming a dad just means it's time to grow up a little bit. You have a child in the world, you have to provide for someone else ... so buckle in and figure things out!” [sendtonews type="float" key="OCI6dATmxi-2835459-14453"] Two years after Ryder’s birth, Wharton and his girlfriend, Taylor Selfridge, announced that their first child together was on the way. Their daughter, Mila, arrived in April 2020. Floyd, for her part, got engaged to Zach Davis in April 2021. She and the realtor share son Ace, who was born one month after Davis’ proposal. “She’s way more into it than I thought she would be,” the Teen Mom OG star exclusively told Us in January 2021 of Ryder’s big sister role. "She prays for the baby every night. She wakes up and talks to the baby. It’s really cute. I definitely didn’t think she would care … at such a young age. It’s been fun to experience it with her.” Keep scrolling to follow Floyd and Wharton’s coparenting highs and lows.

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December 2017

"It's actually great," Wharton told Us of coparenting. "She's seeing other people. I'm seeing other people. Our main focus is Ryder. Me and her are best friends now. I fell into the perfect position."

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April 2019

Floyd and Selfridge are "cordial" coparenting, the Ex on the Beach alum told Us, explaining, "We both understand that there has to be mutual respect for each other."

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June 2019

Wharton is more "strict" than Floyd, she exclusively told Us. "I’m more like, ‘Come on. She’s tired, give her the pacifier.’ I don’t know, I do what Ryder wants. I’m her puppet. She gets everything out of me. He’s the enforcer. I’m not at all. She can have the world. I don't care."

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January 2021

Floyd called coparenting "overwhelming at first," adding, "Present day, we have mastered how we coparent with each other and how to live separate lives but still have a life for Ryder, together.”

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July 2021

"It’s not always rainbows and butterflies," Wharton exclusively told Us. "We do have our fights and we do get into it.” He noted that they "always make sure that [their] focus is back on Ryder” when they disagree.

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August 2021

Although Floyd and Wharton "butted heads" in 2021 when he left home to film the 37th season of The Challenge, she told Us that they were on better terms. "We're back to great right now," she said. "As long as he's in town, she's happy. It's when he does The Challenge where it gets a little rocky."

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January 2022

"I feel like coparenting is, like, an ongoing evolution of trying to figure out what’s going. And then as soon as you feel like you’ve got it, there’s something else thrown in," Floyd exclusively told Us. "But I mean, as long as we’re communicating and Ryder’s happy, that’s all we really care about. That’s very evident. Ryder lives her best life. She’s fine, so we’re fine.”

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August 2022

After becoming parents for the second and third times, respectively, Floyd and Wharton's coparenting dynamic has shifted — but they ride the wave together.

“We check in and we adapt," Floyd exclusively told Us in August about her relationship with the Real World alum, who welcomed his second daughter with Taylor Selfridge in June. "We truly have to rely on each other sometimes because there's days where I'm like, ‘I can't do this. Like, I'm, I'm wiped out. You gotta meet me somewhere and get Ry.' And there's days where he's like, ‘Hey, I know it's not my day.’ Or you know, we adapt to each other and we're going through a lot right now. … We rely on each other.”

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September 2022

"Aww @thatsryderk you looked so cute last night my lil flower girl," Wharton wrote via his Instagram Story on September 30, sharing footage from Floyd and Davis' wedding one day before. "Congratulations to @cheynotshy and @z.terrel. They did it!! Mr & Mrs. Davis, congratulations!"

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July 2023

“I think we definitely go through rough patches and moments and we have to all check each other in a respectful way,” Floyd exclusively told Us. “We have a lot of check-ins where the four of us will get together and just lay everything out on the table, different topics, ideas.”

She explained that all the adults in Ryder’s life are “just trying to learn from each other and do the best we can for all of the kids.”