The Moment
Meghan King is getting a sliver of holiday magic this year – and honestly, it sounds like she needs it.
The former Real Housewives of Orange County star will reportedly spend time with her three kids – daughter Aspen, 9, and twin sons Hart and Hayes, 7 – “around Christmas” in Missouri after they moved to live full-time with their dad, retired MLB player Jim Edmonds, in Tennessee.
According to a December 24, 2025 celebrity news report, a source says the kids are set to travel back to Missouri this week to celebrate with Meghan. Jim and his wife, Kortnie Edmonds, are not expected to be part of whatever Meghan plans with the kids.
The same report notes the children permanently moved from the St. Louis area to Nashville right after their school semester ended and will start at a new school after winter break. Jim even marked the “brand-new chapter” in an Instagram post, while Meghan has quietly posted birthday wishes to Aspen and a sweet shot of the kids playing at a holiday market.
For context: this all comes on the heels of a bruising custody shake-up, a Child Protective Services investigation, and Meghan missing Thanksgiving with her kids altogether.
The Take
I’ll be blunt: this doesn’t read like a glamorous reality-star holiday; it reads like a lot of divorced parents’ reality, just with better lighting and more Instagram filters.
On paper, Meghan “gets” some Christmas time. In real life, her three kids now live in another state with their dad, she’s gone from having a regular routine with them to scheduled visitation, and the big family holidays are suddenly a game of legal Tetris. That’s not a win; that’s a consolation prize.
There’s also the emotional whiplash. One minute, you’re doing school drop-off in St. Louis. The next, your kids have new bedrooms, new friends, and a new school in Nashville, and you’re the parent they visit. For any mom – public figure or not – that has to feel like being demoted from series regular to guest star on your own family show.
The CPS angle and the allegation that Meghan gave one of the twins unprescribed ADHD medication? That’s serious stuff and way beyond gossip. We don’t know the full story, we don’t know the outcome, and we shouldn’t guess. What it does underline is how fast a parenting decision – or mistake – can snowball once lawyers, courts, and investigators are in the mix.
Meanwhile, Jim’s “brand-new chapter” Instagram vibe versus Meghan’s quieter, kid-focused posts tells you everything about their current lanes. He’s announcing a move and a fresh start. She’s clinging to pockets of normalcy: birthdays, holiday fairs, moments where it’s just Mom and the kids, not Mom-The-Headline.
To me, this story isn’t really about who “won” custody. It’s about what happens after the courtroom dust settles. You still have backpacks to pack, flights to coordinate, and little kids trying to understand why their Christmas now involves TSA lines.
If fame is a funhouse mirror for normal life, this is the distorted version of something a lot of divorced parents over 40 know too well: when the relationship dies, the calendar becomes a battlefield.
Receipts
Confirmed:
- Meghan King and Jim Edmonds finalized their divorce in 2021 and share three children together, Aspen, Hart, and Hayes.
- Earlier this month, the exes reached a permanent custody agreement that has the kids living with Jim in Tennessee, with Meghan getting limited visitation, including some summer weeks, according to a December 2025 celebrity news report based on court documents.
- The same report states that the children permanently moved from the St. Louis area to Nashville after their school semester ended and will start at a new school after winter break.
- Jim referred to the move as a “brand-new chapter” in a recent Instagram post featuring the kids.
- Meghan has posted a birthday tribute to Aspen and a photo of the kids at a holiday market on her Instagram, subtly acknowledging the situation without a full public statement.
- Meghan did not see the kids on Thanksgiving this year and previously had supervised visitation on Tuesdays and Thursdays under a temporary arrangement, per the same report.
Unverified / Alleged:
- A source claims the kids will travel back to Missouri “around Christmas” to spend holiday time with Meghan. Travel details and exact dates have not been confirmed by either parent.
- Meghan allegedly gave son Hayes unprescribed ADHD medication and asked a school nurse to administer it, leading to a CPS investigation. This is described as an allegation in reporting; there is no public information about findings or any charges.
Sources: Celebrity news report published December 24, 2025; recent public Instagram posts from Meghan King and Jim Edmonds in December 2025.
Meghan King’s surprising holiday plans revealed after ‘RHOC’ alum lost full custody of kids to Jim Edmonds https://t.co/7b4BA61Qx1 pic.twitter.com/X9vXagLIa7
— Page Six (@PageSix) December 24, 2025
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
If you only remember Meghan King as “the young one with the baseball husband” from RHOC, here’s the quick catch-up. She married Jim Edmonds, a former St. Louis Cardinals star, in 2014. Their marriage and fertility journey – including IVF and the twins’ birth – played out on reality TV and social media. The relationship crashed in 2019 amid public drama and cheating allegations, and their divorce was finalized in 2021. Since then, they’ve had a long, messy chapter of co-parenting issues, public jabs, and now, a major custody shift that leaves Jim as the primary residential parent in Tennessee and Meghan fitting her motherhood into court-approved windows.
What’s Next
Short term, all eyes (very gently, we hope) are on this holiday visit. Do the kids make it to Missouri without drama? Does Meghan share more glimpses of their time together, or keep it mostly private?
Come January, the kids start that new school in Nashville, which signals that this isn’t a trial run; it’s the new normal. For Meghan, that likely means more travel, more scheduling, and more pressure to make the time she does get with her kids feel special without veering into Disneyland-parent territory.
Legally, we don’t know if the custody orders will stay as-is or be revisited later. That depends on what happened with the CPS investigation, how both parents handle the arrangement, and whether either side asks the court to change things down the line.
Publicly, the next big shoe to drop would be a direct statement from Meghan – something beyond soft Instagram hints – about how she’s navigating this new setup. For now, she seems to be doing what a lot of parents in her spot do: try to build a meaningful holiday out of whatever time the court calendar has left her.
Because at the end of the day, behind the legal language and the reality TV history, there are three little kids whose biggest concern this week should be whether Santa can find them in two different states.
Your turn: When kids live full-time with one parent in another state, what do you think is the fairest way to handle big holidays like Christmas so they still feel stable and loved?
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