Deon and Karen Derrico are going their separate methods.
Earlier this yr, TMZ confirmed that the leads of the TLC actuality present Doubling Down With the Derricos have finalized their divorce … with a choose approving their paperwork again on June 6.
“Together, we remain unified in the parenting of our 14 beautiful children — their well-being is our priority,” Deon and Karen mentioned in a press release issued on the time.
“We thank everyone for their understanding and support as we move forward for the good of our family.”
One Huge Household
Sure, Deon and Karen are dad and mom to 14 CHILDREN.
Their widespread TLC sequence not too long ago wrapped its fifth season.
The spouses — who acquired married in 2005 — will break up custody of their 13 minor kids (they’ve one teenager who’s legally an grownup); and Derrico has agreed to pay over $1100 a month in youngster help.
Karen, in the meantime, is answerable for paying the medical insurance coverage premiums of their kids.
The Full Roster
To summarize, the TLC personalities are are dad and mom to Derrick, 13… 12-year-old twins Dallas and Denver… 10-year-old quintuplets Deonee, Daician, Daiten, Deniko and Dariz… 6-year-olds Diez and Dior… and 4-year-old triplets Dawsyn, De’Aren and Dyver.
As talked about above, oldest daughter Darian is eighteen years outdated.
Regardless of this spectacular variety of little kids, Karen instructed Leisure Tonight as not too long ago as 2022 that she didn’t assume they had been finished having youngsters.
“No, that diaper bag is not being hung up,” she mentioned on the time. “I don’t feel complete. I don’t think we are 100 percent complete.”
Deon echoed this sentiment, telling this identical outlet again then:
“[I] think when you have created – what I think we have created – in this home, the love, the amount of love, I could just never get tired of.”
Karen sadly suffered two miscarriages in late 2020 and late 2021.
Indicators of Pressure
The newest season of Doubling Down With the Derricos centered on the stress between Karen and Dion, as they argued at one level over Darian’s resolution to maneuver throughout the nation.
The exes have additionally gotten into it concerning the state of their new residence and their oldest daughter’s schooling.
Shortly after the Season 5 finale, Doubling Down With the Derricos was renewed for a sixth season.
The brand new episodes will doubtless doc a turbulent time for the household. Along with Deon’s break up from Karen, his nephew, Amani, handed away unexpectedly in July.
A Troublesome State of affairs
Regardless of the Derricos’ intentions to maintain issues civil, the divorce has gotten relatively messy. In actual fact, Deon needed to subject a press release denying that he was suicidal.
Funds have reportedly been a difficulty, which isn’t a shock, given the expense of elevating such a large brood.
Deon and Karen beforehand mentioned they pay as much as $3,500 in groceries per thirty days and that it will probably take three hours to get the entire household prepared for every day.
And but:
“I enjoy the journey. I enjoy breast-feeding; I enjoy all of that,” Karen instructed Us Weekly two-plus years in the past. “Although I am high risk and have to go on bedrest, things of that nature, I still enjoy the process.”
For the report, primarily based on these divorce paperwork, she is NOT pregnant in the intervening time.
