Jim Edmonds has shared a photo of himself and his three kids after being temporarily awarded custody of the children.
Taking to his Instagram Story on Friday, November 28, Edmonds, 55, shared a family snap with his daughter Aspen, 9, and twin sons, Hart and Hayes, both 7, all of whom he shares with his ex-wife, Meghan King. The photo also featured Edmonds’ current wife Kortnie. He captioned it, “Lots of love.”
The post comes after Us Weekly broke the news on November 19 that King, 41, had temporarily lost custody of the three children following an investigation by Child Protective Services.
Multiple sources told Us earlier this month that King retained supervised visitation rights, but Edmonds has sole physical custody of the three children. The decision is temporary pending a hearing — scheduled for December — to determine whether the custody arrangement will become permanent.
Meghan King has three children with ex-husband Jim Edmonds and enjoys documenting her lives with the little ones on social media. The Real Housewives of Orange County alum became a mom in November 2016 when daughter Aspen arrived, two years after her and the former professional baseball player’s St. Louis wedding. One year later, the […]
King and Edmonds married in 2014 before splitting in 2019. The former couple made headlines in 2022 when King filed for a temporary restraining order. In the legal paperwork, she alleged that Edmonds exhibited “frequent and consistent verbal abuse” toward her virtually and on their court-monitored coparenting app, Our Family Wizard.
“This request for an order of protection is completely baseless and furthermore makes an absolute mockery of the pain suffered by the millions of women in this country who are legitimate victims of abuse,” said Edmonds’ rep, Steve Honig.
In May this year, police were called to Edmonds’ home after King allegedly entered the home he shares with wife Kortnie without permission. King told police officers that Edmonds was “emotionally abusive” toward her, which he denied in a statement to Us in September.
Jim Edmonds and Meghan King. (Photo courtesy of Meghan King/ Instagram)
“As usual, Meghan is telling tales. Her and Jim barely communicate, so if someone is emotionally abusing her, it’s not Jim,” a spokesperson claimed. “Jim is an active and present father to all his children. The unfortunate part of all this is that it’s the kids who suffer the most. Jim has always been willing to coparent in a respectful and productive way, however Meghan has yet to reciprocate.”
Over the years, the pair has been open about their difficulties with navigating coparenting challenges.
King exclusively told Us Weekly in February that she and Edmonds struggle to coparent in an amicable manner.
“I don’t know what coparenting is. … In order to coparent, you have to communicate right?” she told Us at the time. “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.”
Two years prior to her coparenting admission, King shared that she had never “envisioned” her family unit being separated.
“’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,” she wrote via a candid Instagram post in May 2020. “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.
She concluded, “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.”
