Meghan King and Jim Edmonds’ Coparenting Quotes While Raising 3 Kids

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Meghan King and Jim Edmonds' Coparenting Quotes While Raising 3 Kids

Open books. Meghan King and Jim Edmonds have been candid about their troubled coparenting dynamic since their October 2019 split. The former couple wed in October 2014 in Missouri, welcoming daughter Aspen two years later. The University of Mississippi grad went on to give birth to sons Hart and Hayes in 2018. After the duo called it quits, the former professional baseball player moved on with Kortnie O’Connor. The retired athlete proposed to the California native in July 2021. “Dear Diary, A month ago, Jimmy asked me to marry him in the most intimate and personal way,” the bride-to-be wrote via Instagram in August 2021. “I said yes! Love, Kortnie.” [jwplayer kQYxF8h7-zhNYySv2] King, for her part, dated Christian Schauf and Will Roos after their divorce. The former Bravo personality knew President Joe Biden’s nephew Cuffe Owens for three weeks before she wed the attorney in October 2021 in Pennsylvania. “[We] texted for a day or two, then spent five straight hours on the phone the first time we spoke,” the Missouri native told Brides magazine after the whirlwind nuptials. “By the time that call ended, Cuffe was booked and packed for a flight to St. Louis that took off in about eight hours. Within a week, we were back on the East Coast, meeting his family, and starting to plan our future together. We didn’t leave each other’s side for weeks.” King and Edmonds’ three children were included in the ceremony, the former reality star added at the time, explaining, “We told the kids they could walk down the aisle with me if they wanted to. Aspen said she wanted 'to throw flowers at me' so it was decided she would be the flower girl!” Edmonds told Daily Mail that he thought his ex-wife’s wedding was “a joke.” He added, “She called me to tell me she was getting married. It was the first I heard anything about it. … I wondered, ‘Is she pregnant?’ But is it even possible to know that just four weeks after the first date? Really I have no emotion on her wedding one way or another. It’s like a stranger getting married. I have no connection to her.” Keep scrolling to see how he and King have described their rocky coparenting relationship over the years, including the Say Yes to the Dress alum feeling “blocked” from her ex-stepchildren, Hayley, Lauren, Ladon and Sutten. [podcast_block]

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Meghan King and Jim Edmonds' Coparenting Quotes While Raising 3 Kids

Open books. Meghan King and Jim Edmonds have been candid about their troubled coparenting dynamic since their October 2019 split. The former couple wed in October 2014 in Missouri, welcoming daughter Aspen two years later. The University of Mississippi grad went on to give birth to sons Hart and Hayes in 2018. After the duo called it quits, the former professional baseball player moved on with Kortnie O’Connor. The retired athlete proposed to the California native in July 2021. “Dear Diary, A month ago, Jimmy asked me to marry him in the most intimate and personal way,” the bride-to-be wrote via Instagram in August 2021. “I said yes! Love, Kortnie.” [jwplayer kQYxF8h7-zhNYySv2] King, for her part, dated Christian Schauf and Will Roos after their divorce. The former Bravo personality knew President Joe Biden’s nephew Cuffe Owens for three weeks before she wed the attorney in October 2021 in Pennsylvania. “[We] texted for a day or two, then spent five straight hours on the phone the first time we spoke,” the Missouri native told Brides magazine after the whirlwind nuptials. “By the time that call ended, Cuffe was booked and packed for a flight to St. Louis that took off in about eight hours. Within a week, we were back on the East Coast, meeting his family, and starting to plan our future together. We didn’t leave each other’s side for weeks.” King and Edmonds’ three children were included in the ceremony, the former reality star added at the time, explaining, “We told the kids they could walk down the aisle with me if they wanted to. Aspen said she wanted 'to throw flowers at me' so it was decided she would be the flower girl!” Edmonds told Daily Mail that he thought his ex-wife’s wedding was “a joke.” He added, “She called me to tell me she was getting married. It was the first I heard anything about it. … I wondered, ‘Is she pregnant?’ But is it even possible to know that just four weeks after the first date? Really I have no emotion on her wedding one way or another. It’s like a stranger getting married. I have no connection to her.” Keep scrolling to see how he and King have described their rocky coparenting relationship over the years, including the Say Yes to the Dress alum feeling “blocked” from her ex-stepchildren, Hayley, Lauren, Ladon and Sutten. [podcast_block]

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December 2019

"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,” King exclusively told Us Weekly of her “really high” coparenting hopes. “New beginnings are huge, so I’m looking forward to that."

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January 2020

The former sales representative told Heather McDonald in a “Juicy Scoop” podcast episode that she had “no contact” with her ex-husband’s kids, explaining, “I’ve been blocked from their phone numbers, from their Instagrams. They’ve been told things, according to Jim, that I’ve never said. … They were my family. I did so much for them, like you would with anyone who was your family. So that really makes me sad. It’s not helping them. I know they’re being poisoned, being told a lot of different things that aren’t true. They know me enough to know who I am.”

Edmonds’ rep replied to her statement with a statement to Us, reading, “If Meghan genuinely wants to have a relationship with her step-children, a good first step would be for her to stop saying bad things about their father in the press. Jim is not poisoning them; she is poisoning herself. Why would the kids want to have a relationship with someone who is trying to harm their father?”

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March 2020

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, King wrote via Instagram: “At the advice of our pediatrician, we have decided that our kids are gonna stay where they were when this whole safer-at-home started. It was with me, so they’re gonna stay with me until this passes."

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April 2020

When King alleged that Edmonds’ child support payments “barely” covered her groceries, his rep told Us, “If what Jim is giving to Meghan each month for child support doesn’t cover her groceries, she must be getting her eggs from Faberge. Jim also pays every single bill for both of her homes, all the medical bills and practically every other expense related to the kids and the houses. Jim continually goes above-and-beyond what he is required to do."

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May 2020

“It's my first Mother's Day I'm spending without a partner, something I NEVER envisioned,” King captioned an Instagram post. “’Families are created out of unconditional love,’ I thought. 'Two parents weather life's storms but always remain together to celebrate the subsequent rainbows,’ I thought. But that is not my story and that makes me feel deeply regretful — like I failed my children by not giving them a nuclear family. But today I am refusing to dwell on mistakes and s--tty situations I can't control; today I control my reaction. I miss my stepkids who made me a mother before I had children of my own and I am sending them so much love. I miss my freedom. And I mourn the loss of what could've been. But despite this I look at my beautiful tribe with pride because I am a mother to three incredible kids and I'm the only one they’ve got.”

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October 2020

When King announced Hart’s cerebral palsy diagnosis in a blog post, his rep told Us, “Jim is unaware of any such diagnosis and, if it is even true, it is completely unconscionable and absolutely disgraceful that Meghan would announce this on social media without discussing it with him first.”

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December 2020

The California native jokingly referred to his children as “tenants” via Instagram Stories after King moved out of their former family home.

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April 2021

“[Our kids] don't even remember when we were together,” King told her “Intimate Knowledge” podcast listeners. “They have no idea. I'll show them pictures when they were babies and how he's with me. And they're just totally mind blown. It's like that emoji with the head exploding, like, 'You and dad were in the same room?'”

She went on to call coparenting a “struggle,” adding, “It's a common theme among parents who are coparenting. If you’re coparenting well then, I don't know, maybe she just [should’ve] stayed married or something. That's how I see it, I guess. Or you're just, like, a very evolved soul and a wonderful person. But I don't think that my coparenting relationship has reached that level of evolution.”

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February 2022

King exclusively told Us that Edmonds "hates" her and they “struggle” to coparent amicably. She joked, “I don’t know what coparenting is. … In order to coparent, you have to communicate right? Yeah, so that would be a good start. … I don’t think [the kids] like it. I don’t think they know any different, but I don’t think they like it either. I wish we could discuss things about our children, but we can’t.”