Deon and Karen Derrico are going their separate methods.
Earlier this 12 months, 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 stated in an announcement issued on the time.
“We thank everyone for their understanding and support as we move forward for the good of our family.”
The solid of Doubling Down With the Derricos is featured on this image. (TLC)
One Massive Household
Sure, Deon and Karen are dad and mom to 14 CHILDREN.
Their fashionable TLC sequence lately wrapped its fifth season.
The spouses — who received married in 2005 — will cut up custody of their 13 minor youngsters (they’ve one teenager who’s legally an grownup); and Derrico has agreed to pay over $1100 a month in youngster assist.
Karen, in the meantime, is chargeable for paying the medical insurance coverage premiums of their youngsters.
Deon and Karen Derrico share 14 youngsters. They’re now divorced. (TLC)
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 previous.
Regardless of this spectacular variety of little children, Karen instructed Leisure Tonight as lately as 2022 that she didn’t assume they had been completed having children.
“No, that diaper bag is not being hung up,” she stated 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.”
Doubling Down with the Derricos stars Karen and Deon Derrico converse to the digital camera. (TLC)
Karen sadly suffered two miscarriages in late 2020 and late 2021.
Indicators of Pressure
The latest season of Doubling Down With the Derricos centered on the strain between Karen and Dion, as they argued at one level over Darian’s choice to maneuver throughout the nation.
The exes have additionally gotten into it in regards to the state of their new house and their oldest daughter’s training.
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 cut up from Karen, his nephew, Amani, handed away unexpectedly in July.
Life could be hectic on Doubling Down with the Derricos, contemplating all the children concerned. (TLC)
A Troublesome State of affairs
Regardless of the Derricos’ intentions to maintain issues civil, the divorce has gotten quite messy. In reality, Deon needed to problem an announcement denying that he was suicidal.
Funds have reportedly been a problem, which isn’t a shock, given the expense of elevating such an enormous brood.
Deon and Karen beforehand stated they pay as much as $3,500 in groceries per 30 days and that it may 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 document, based mostly on these divorce paperwork, she is NOT pregnant for the time being.
