Preserving issues cordial!
Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp, 43, shared a tribute to her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave, through Instagram two months after announcing their separation.
“16 years in the past me and [Edwin] met. I’ll eternally be thankful for that evening at Coco Deville,” Mellencamp captioned a sequence of throwback pictures of her and Arroyave, 47, on Thursday, December, 26.
“I might by no means have identified I needed children till assembly my wonderful stepdaughter, Isabella. My love for her modified my life and 5 years later got here Slate, then Cruz, after which our miracle child Dove in 2020,” the “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast host continued.
She concluded, “I could also be removed from good however being a mom has been the best reward you would have given me. Thanks all the time and eternally.”
Mellencamp announced her separation from Arroyave on November 2.
“After a substantial amount of care and consideration, I’ve made the troublesome resolution to file for divorce,” Mellencamp wrote through Instagram. “My precedence is my youngsters and guaranteeing that each care is taken with their privateness and wellbeing all through this new chapter.”
She added, “Making a public assertion is just not one thing I needed to do, however in an effort to guard my household from undue hypothesis and rumors, I felt being open, sincere and weak was the very best path ahead.”
Later in November, Us Weekly reported that Mellencamp allegedly had an affair with her horse trainer, Simon Schroeder, months earlier than separating from Arroyave.
“Simon and Teddi had a factor a number of months in the past nevertheless it’s not nonetheless occurring,” a supply solely advised Us, noting that Teddi and Edwin have been each untrue to at least one one other throughout their marriage.
A second insider claimed that Arroyave spoke with Schroeder’s spouse, Karli, who “confirmed the affair.”
On Tuesday, December 24, Mellencamp detailed her first Christmas without her kids — Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 4 — as she spent the vacations at former RHOBH costar and pal Kyle Richards’ Beverly Hills house. (Mellencamp revealed earlier this month that she had moved in with Richards following her separation from her ex.)
“In my Bridget Jones period. If I didn’t giggle at myself, I might cry,” Mellencamp wrote alongside a number of movies of her in her pajamas singing “All By Myself,” channeling a scene from Renée Zellweger’s film Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Mellencamp opened up about adjusting to her new regular, including, “First Christmas with out my children, and I do know they’re in nice arms with a tremendous dad, however that doesn’t imply I can’t really feel some kind of method.”
She concluded: “Ordered $74 of Thai meals, consuming cookie dough (who has time to bake) and watched 9 episodes of Lioness. To all my mother and father on the market going by this, I really like you. What are all the information for powering by?”