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Meghan KingandJim Edmondswent through plenty of ups and downs over the course of their five-year marriage — much of which was documented on Bravo’sThe Real Housewives of Orange County.
The pair first started dating in 2013, and after Edmonds proposed, King headed to Kleinfeld Bridal in New York City to pick out her dress — an event that was captured for theSay Yes to the Dresscameras.
Not long after they got married in October 2014, King was cast onThe Real Housewives of Orange Countyfor season 10, and the pair’s highlights and struggles were filmed for the next three seasons of the Bravo series.
After King departedRHOCin 2018, Edmonds was accused of being unfaithful to his wife multiple times. The couple eventually split up for good in November 2019, and later finalized their divorce in May 2021.
From becoming Bravo stars to their eventual divorce, here’s everything to know about Meghan King and Jim Edmonds' relationship.
April 2013: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds start dating
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King and Edmonds had both been married before they got together. King was previously married to Brad McDill, whom she legally separated from in October 2011, while Edmonds had already been married twice: to the lateLee Ann Horton, with whom he had two daughters, and to Allison Jayne Raski, with whom he shares a son and daughter.
In an interview withPage Six,King shared that she first met Edmondsthrough another man she was dating following her divorce. After they split up, Edmonds asked her out.
“He was waiting in the wings,” she said. “He said he had to wait for an acceptable amount of time to pass before he asked me out on a date, because he didn’t want to have bad blood in his group of friends.”
April 1, 2014: Meghan King filmsSay Yes to the Dress
On April 1, 2014, King posted on Instagram thatshe was filmingSay Yes to the Dressat Kleinfeld Bridal. (According to herInstagram, she and Edmonds got engaged sometime before March 2014). King’sSay Yes to the Dressepisode aired on Oct. 24, 2014 — the day of her and Edmonds' wedding.
October 24, 2014: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds get married
A year and a half after they started dating, King and Edmonds married on Oct. 24, 2014. While King had said the pair were tying the knot in Bora Bora onSay Yes to the Dress, they ended up getting married in St. Louis, where King is from and where Edmonds played baseball for much of his career.
June 8, 2015: Meghan King joinsThe Real Housewives of Orange County
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King’s first episode ofThe Real Housewives of Orange Countyaired in June 2015. In her introduction to the series, King explained that she and Edmonds moved to Orange County to be near his two oldest daughters' mother, who was sick. (Horton died of cancerin July 2015.)
She also discussed the beginning her relationship with Edmonds on the show, saying, “I promised myself that I would never marry a man with children — Jimmy has four kids. I would never marry a man who was more than 11 years older than me — he’s 14 years older than me. And I would never marry a professional athlete. I broke all of my rules, because Jim Edmonds asked me on a date.”
October 24, 2015: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds celebrate their first wedding anniversary
“Happy 1 year anniversary to my love,” she wrote. “I can’t believe how quickly this date snuck up on us! You are my best friend and I couldn’t have been luckier to find you.”
June 20, 2016: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds announce they’re expecting first their child
After documenting their IVF process onRHOC, King revealed to PEOPLE in June 2016 that she and Edmonds wereexpecting their first childtogether.
“I’m so over the moon, I couldn’t believe it the first time I peed on a stick and I saw that little line kind of get a little darker,” she said. “I’ve always dreamed of this, but it’s still such a miracle. I can’t even describe the feeling.”
November 24, 2016: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds welcome their daughter
King and Edmonds welcomed their daughter,Aspen King Edmonds, on Thanksgiving Day in 2016. She announced the news in early December.
“Our perfect Aspen King Edmonds made her grand entrance on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2016, 6lbs 11oz,” King wrote on Instagram. “From the hours leading up to the birth I had the most incredible husband, he didn’t leave my side … I am so proud and impressed of the team we made to welcome Aspen, our bond is more unshakable than I ever imagined.”
December 21, 2017: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds announce they’re expecting twins
About a year after welcoming their daughter, Edmonds and King shared that they wereexpecting twin sons. Alongside a photo of herself, Edmonds, Aspen and their dog, Girly Girl, King wrote, “We’re having TWINS! Oh boy oh boy! 💙💙#doubletrouble #threeundertwo.”
January 23, 2018: Meghan King leavesRHOC
King announced thatshe was leavingRHOCafter three seasons in January 2018. In a post on her blog, she shared that she decided to leave to spend more time with her family and focus on her pregnancy.
Edmonds applauded his wife’s choice in a supportive Instagram post.
“Let’s try this again. I am so PROUD of my wife,” he captioned a selfie of King. “This beautiful woman is charging through life on her own terms.”
June 5, 2018: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds welcome their sons
Edmonds and King welcomed their twin sons,Hayes and Hart Edmonds, on June 5, 2018.
Edmonds shared the same photo of the twins taken shortly after their birth and wrote in the caption, “Everyone is doing well. My wife was a rockstar once again and delivered both babies with no medication. #onetoughlady.”
October 24, 2018: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds celebrate four years of marriage
In 2018, Edmonds and Kingcelebrated their fourth wedding anniversary.
June 14, 2019: Jim Edmonds is accused of having an affair
In June 2019, a source claimed toAllAboutTheTeathat Edmonds cheated on both his second wife and King with the same woman. In a statement toUs Weekly,Edmonds saidthat he had an “inappropriate conversation” with the woman, but had no physical interaction with her.
“Regrettably, I had a lapse in judgment. I engaged in an inappropriate conversation with this person,” Edmonds said. “At no time was there any type of relationship or physical contact. Absolutely none. This is someone trying to profit from my name. I am aware she has done this to others in the past.” He continued, “Clearly, I made a very poor decision to expose myself and my family to this type of person. For this, I am truly sorry and sought forgiveness from my wife.”
The source accused Edmonds of having an affair with a “baseball madame” while King was pregnant with their twin sons.
June 14, 2019: Meghan King speaks out about the situation
Later that same day,King spoke outabout the situation in apost on her blogtitled “I’m Sad.”
King shared that Edmonds sent “lewd photos” to another woman, but didn’t have physical interaction.
“Do I believe him? I don’t know,” she wrote. “Because I don’t trust him anymore. Physical or not, he still had an affair and he admits this to me.”
She continued, “I’m a simple girl. I wanted a solid marriage. I’m as loyal as they come and I wanted the vows we made when we exchanged our rings to be acted upon. Now my wedding ring symbolizes fraud.” She concluded: “Ultimately, I have hope our marriage can recover.”
July 5, 2019: Meghan King reveals her and Jim Edmonds' son has “irreversible brain damage”
“From the minute he was born I knew something was different with Hart,” King wrote on her blog. After receiving the diagnosis, she immediately called Edmonds.
“That night Jimmy and I went out to dinner for the first time in weeks. I explained to Jimmy how we are not somehow compromised or punished for having a child with special needs (whatever that may or may not mean!), we are BLESSED,” she wrote.
July 22, 2019: Meghan King confirms she and Jim Edmonds are still together
A month after the cheating allegations first broke, King confirmed in an interview with theDaily Mailthat she and Edmondswere still together.
“We’re still married, we’re still together, we’re not separated,” the former reality star said. She called Edmonds' relationship with the other woman “a sexting thing” and explained her current status with her husband, “We’re in the family home, we’re in the same bed. We’re not having therapy, we’re talking.”
October 24, 2019: Meghan King shares that she and Jim Edmonds are in counseling
In October 2019, King said that she and her husband decidedto try couples counselingfollowing the sexting scandal.
King gave the interview on the day of her and Edmonds' anniversary. “Today’s actually our five-year anniversary — and so we, he’s inside at Goodwill [and] we’re like, looking for Halloween costumes — and then we’re going to counseling,” she said. “I think that’s almost a date for us because we have to talk about us; we have to communicate about things that don’t involve [other topics].”
October 28, 2019: Jim Edmonds is accused of cheating on Meghan King with their nanny
A few days after King revealed that she and Edmonds were working things out in counseling, rumors surfaced that the former MLB player had cheated on his wife with their nanny. Amid reports that Edmonds had filed for divorce, he spoke out on Instagram todeny that he had been unfaithful.
“It’s one thing to be accused of something. It’s another thing to be so negligent and so careless, and ruin the lives of innocent young people,” he wrote in part. “I did not sleep with our nanny. She’s not just a nanny, she is someone that we brought into our house and promised to protect and look after while she was in our home. We have been treating and raising this young girl like she is our own child!”
The pair’s nanny, Carly Wilson, also denied that she had been sexually involved with Edmonds.
October 29, 2019: Meghan King speaks out about Edmonds' alleged infidelity
King added that she initially wrote off the outings because Edmonds' adult daughter was also there, but “given his previous indiscretions, I was uncomfortable. Even more so when he started lying about where he was going or who he was going with — and deleting entire text conversations on his phone with several of these young women.”
King also wrote that her marriage was ending. “I love my husband and I’m devastated that our marriage is being broken up in the ugliest and messiest way … My step kids, Landon and Sutton, have lost a stepmother whom they love and will have to endure another divorce and broken home in their short lifetime.”
October 30, 2019: Jim Edmonds vows to “make it right” with Meghan King after cheating allegations
In a statement to PEOPLE, Edmondspublicly addressed his relationship dramawith King, and alluded to the rumors of his affair with the nanny.
“The last couple years have been rough on my wife and me for many reasons,” he said. “Marriage is difficult but add three small children under three, two adolescent children, two adult children, building a house and two busy, hard-working spouses and the stress of living our lives in the public eye. At times we are exhausted and feel our life has become one of distrust, kids, work, house, sleep and repeat.”
Edmonds continued, “After having a few days to digest the situation, I realize that something that occurred in a split second spiraled out of control with no way to stop it. We were both separately surprised to find out that the media had received details of our private situation without our knowledge.”
November 8, 2019: Jim Edmonds moves into the home he was building with Meghan King alone
Despite Edmonds' vow to make his relationship with King work, he appeared to be living separately from his wife in early November 2019. The former MLB player documented his daymoving into the couple’s unfinished new homeon Instagram without King.
January 2020: Meghan King says Jim Edmonds is dating a woman they had a threesome with
From left to right: Meghan King Edmonds, Jim Edmonds and Kortnie O’Connor.Jerod Harris/Getty; Charles Sykes/Bravo; Kortnie O’Connor/Instagram
Kingopened up about Edmonds' new girlfriendKortnie O’Connor during an episode of her podcastIntimate Knowledge.
“I found out yesterday that my ex is allegedly having an affair, or seeing somebody,” she said. “Okay, well fine right? We’re separated.”
King then alleged that she and Edmonds had previously had a threesome with O’Connor when they were newlyweds. “I felt very comfortable with her, it just felt like ‘Okay if I’m going do this, this can be with who and I’m comfortable with that,’ " she explained, adding that while it was a “one-time thing,” she and Edmonds occasionally ran into O’Connor over the years.
“On another couple occasions, Jim and I saw her together and we were very friendly and small-talked, but he wasn’t,” she recalled. “It was just me. There was just something weird between them and there was something where they almost acted like I was the one who was out of something.”
Edmonds laterdenied that he and King had a threesomewith O’Connor during an appearance onSiriusXM’sRadio Andyin September 2020.
“That was all false. That was a joke. I don’t even know how she comes up with this stuff,” he told hostAndy Cohen.
May 2020: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds exchange words over child support
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In response to one of her Instagram followers,King commented on the child supportshe receives from Edmonds. “Girl I have a career thank you very much! That child support is not buying me gold and baubles — it barely pays for groceries for my tribe!” she wrote.
Edmonds’s rep then responded in a statement to PEOPLE, “We’re not going to give numbers because it’s no one’s business, but if what Jim is giving to Meghan each month for child support doesn’t cover her groceries, she must be getting her eggs from Fabergé.”
July 2020: Meghan King drops “Edmonds” from her Instagram handle
King took another step in her split from Edmonds in July 2020 when shechanged her Instagram handleto @meghanking, removing “Edmonds.”
May 2021: Meghan King and Jim Edmonds finalize their divorce
King and Edmonds' divorce was finalized in May 2021. In January 2021, King had written on her blog that the COVID-19 pandemic haddelayed the proceedings.
“Dude, Covid courts won’t even let me get divorced. I feel like that pretty much sums up 2020: I can’t even accomplish the s——-t thing on my list.”
October 2021: Meghan King marries President Joe Biden’s nephew Cuffe Owens
Edmondsresponded to his ex’s wedding newsa few days later, telling theDaily Mailthat King had called him to give him a heads up.
“She called me to tell me she was getting married. It was the first I heard anything about it. I thought it was a joke — they’d been dating for about four weeks!” he said. “Then I wondered, ‘Is she pregnant?’ But is it even possible to know that just four weeks after the first date?”
King and Owenslater split upafter about two and a half months of marriage. Theirunion was annulledin July 2022.
September 7, 2022: Meghan King is granted a temporary restraining order against Jim Edmonds
King took legal action against her ex following their divorce when sheobtained a temporary restraining orderagainst Edmonds.
Edmonds' rep Steve Honig shared a statement with PEOPLE on his client’s behalf.
September 21, 2022: Meghan King dismisses two orders of protection against Jim Edmonds
“As I continue to heal I’ve become enlightened and more aware of what I’ve been through and how to handle it. Let’s just say I’ll remain protected and safe with a binding document not accessible to the public,” King told PEOPLE.
Edmonds' rep also shared a statement with PEOPLE on his client’s behalf following the dismissal.
“Jim is looking forward to putting all this nonsense behind him as he begins his new life with Kortnie and continues to focus on the needs of his children,” the statement read, referring to Edmond’s now-fiancéeKortnie O’Connor. “There was no threat, which is why Meghan did not need any orders of protection.”
Edmonds and O’Connor tied the knot on Sept. 25, 2022. King addressed her husband’s marriage news during an interview withE! News.
“I saw the pictures,” she said. “I’ll get Google alerts for my name and so all these articles are like ‘Meghan King’s ex Jim Edmonds gets married,’ which I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m sure he’s really loving that.’ Or how it’s like ‘Meghan King’s ex Jim Edmonds marries threesome partner.’ Not the greatest headlines for them.”
The wedding took place just one day ahead of King’s birthday.
“It wasthe greatest gift anyone could have given me,” she said. “Tie that man up and take him away. Float off into the ether of your beautiful fantasyland happiness and just leave me alone, please.”
October 5, 2022: Jim Edmonds responds to Meghan King’s claims that their kids weren’t invited to his wedding
Edmonds and O’Connor had a small wedding in Lake Como, Italy.
During an episode of her podcast,Intimate Knowledge, King claimed that their kids — 4-year-old twin sons Hart and Hayes, and 5-year-old daughter Aspen — didn’t receive an invite to the nuptials.
“[They] weren’t even invited, as far as I know,” she said. “They don’t even have passports and he didn’t ask me to get them a passport.”
March 13, 2023: Jim Edmonds files to modify the child custody agreement with Meghan King
Edmonds isrequesting a more “consistent” custody schedule. Under the current arrangement, he and King submit their custody schedules every 30 days. Should disagreements arise about the schedule, a Parent Coordinator steps in.
“Jim and [wife] Kortnie [O’Connor] believe Meghan is unstable, unfit, unwilling to co-parent and unable to provide an environment for the children that is emotionally and physically safe,” a rep for Edmonds told PEOPLE in a statement.
The rep continued: “In addition, they feel Meghan is intentionally creating obstacles in an effort to put distance between them and the children. Jim has filed a motion with the court to modify the current custody agreement that will give him a greater amount of time with the three children and a more consistent schedule. If Meghan is unable to effectively parent and co-parent under this new agreement, Jim is prepared to continue to seek greater custody of the children to ensure their emotional and physical well-being.”
In response, King said: “I’ve been the primary parent and single mother of my children with zero issues except for the ones in which Jim causes. His salacious claims are unfounded and will be found so in court. My children have always been and always will be my top priority.”
source: people.com
