Bachelorette turned bachelor’s degree?
Kevin Costner’s estranged wife, Christine Baumgartner, reportedly revealed her plans for the longer term amid her contentious divorce from the “Yellowstone” star after a judge ruled that the actor pays her lower than half of her preferred amount of monthly child support.
“I’ll look into the steps I want to take and any education I want to do, and I’ll enter the workforce,” Baumgartner, 49, said in court last week about how she’ll support herself moving forward, in line with People.
The latest ruling got here as a win for Costner, 68, as he was tentatively ordered to make monthly payments of $129,755 to the previous handbag designer for their three kids — Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13 — in July.
But in prior legal documentation, Baumgartner, who filed for divorce from Costner in May after 18 years of marriage, allegedly claimed that the six-figure number still can be “insufficient” and end in the youngsters not living the identical lifestyle with each parent.
On Thursday in court, Baumgartner reportedly argued that Costner should cough up more in child support because an expensive life “is of their DNA at this point.”
“It’s an experience,” she claimed, per People, before describing the family home as a “community.”
“We create whatever we will dream up in here,” she added.
The Post has contacted reps for Costner and Baumgartner for comment.
Meanwhile, Baumgartner reportedly starting the subsequent chapter of her life in a $40,000-a-month rental home in Montecito, California.
As for Costner, the Oscar-winner allegedly admitted to the court that “my world’s been a little bit shook up” last week amid the messy split.
“I even have to deal with obligations which might be already in place, I even have a variety of responsibilities I even have to deal with,” he said about his own future, People reported.
He continued: “I want to determine how I’m going to spend more time with the kids, walk them through this process,” he added. “I’m going to wish to take a while for myself. … I even have so much to contemplate — what I have to do versus what I want to do.”
