Doubling Down With the Derricos stars Deon and Karen Derrico confirmed that they’re divorced and mentioned they are going to coparent their 14 kids following their cut up.
“Collectively, we stay unified within the parenting of our 14 stunning kids — their well-being is our precedence,” the TLC stars mentioned in a press release shared with Us Weekly on Saturday, June 15. “We thank everybody for his or her understanding and help as we transfer ahead for the nice of our household.”
The Derricos filed for divorce on June 4, and a choose authorized the cut up two days later. The pair have been married in 2005 and share 14 kids. TMZ reported that the couple will cut up custody of their 13 minor kids with Derrico agreeing to pay over $1100 a month in little one help. Karen, 44, is answerable for paying the medical insurance coverage premiums of their kids.
Karen is preserving the final title Derrico, per courtroom paperwork reviewed by TMZ. Deon, 53, and Karen’s oldest daughter Darian is eighteen and was not talked about within the docs. The couple share Derrick, 13, twins Dallas and Denver, 12, quintuplets Deonee, Daician, Daiten, Deniko and Dariz, 10, Diez and Dior, each 6, and triplets Dawsyn, De’Aren and Dyver, 4.
The Derricos’ youngest kids have been born in 2019, and their sequence started airing on TLC in 2020. They have been open to having extra kids as lately as 2002.
“We’ve not shut the manufacturing facility down, and I can’t inform you once we will, to be trustworthy,” Deon advised Us Weekly in February of that 12 months. “From my perspective, I simply have that vacant nester worry. I wish to at all times have a baby, a child, in the home with us. That’s how I really feel.”
Karen additionally appeared open to the thought, noting that she loved being pregnant, even when her frequent a number of pregnancies and age made her pregnancies dangerous.
“I benefit from the journey. I take pleasure in breast-feeding. I take pleasure in all of that,” she mentioned on the time. “Though I’m excessive threat and should go on bedrest, issues of that nature, I nonetheless benefit from the course of.”
The courtroom paperwork said that Karen shouldn’t be presently pregnant.
There was no announcement about the way forward for the sequence. The present season of Doubling Down focuses on the stress between Karen and Dion. The exes argued concerning the state of their new residence and their oldest daughter’s training. New episodes of Doubling Down With The Derricos air on TLC on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.