Kevin Costner and Wife Christine Break Up After 18 Years of Marriage

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Kevin Costner and his wife, Christine Baumgartner, person breached up aft 18 years of marriage. The brace stock sons Cayden, 15, and Hayes, 14, arsenic good arsenic girl Grace, 12.

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Kevin Costner is riding disconnected into the sunset alone.

The Yellowstone prima and his wife, Christine Baumgartner, person gone their abstracted ways aft 18 years of marriage, his rep confirms to E! News.

"It is with large sadness that circumstances beyond his power person transpired which person resulted successful Mr. Costner having to enactment successful a dissolution of matrimony action," a spokesperson for Kevin said successful a May 2 statement. "We inquire that his, Christine's and their children's privateness beryllium respected arsenic they navigate this hard time."

In their respective divorce papers, Kevin and Christine requested joint custody of their kids—sons Cayden, 15, and Hayes, 14, arsenic good arsenic girl Grace, 12—according the documents obtained by TMZ, who was archetypal to study the breakup news. (The Field of Dreams alum is besides dada to 4 big children—sons Joe and Liam and daughters Annie and Lily—from his past relationships.)

Per the outlet, Christine cited "irreconcilable differences" arsenic the crushed for divided successful her filing, portion Kevin's noted that that determination is simply a prenuptial statement successful place.

Kevin archetypal met Christine portion golfing successful the aboriginal '90s but the 2 didn't start dating until 1998, aft reconnecting astatine a restaurant, according to People. "We exchanged numbers, and I told her that...did she caput if I called her successful 2 weeks," Kevin recalled to the work successful 2003. "I did not recognize that was similar an insult to a woman."

In 2004, the 2 tied the knot astatine the actor's Colorado ranch in beforehand of household and friends, including Tim Allen and Kevin's Dances with Wolves co-star Mary McDonnell.

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"Fear kept maine from marrying Christine," Kevin admitted successful a 2018 interrogation with Closer Weekly, explaining that she was unfastened astir her desires to person kids but he initially had doubts to being an "effective father" and having much children. "I woke up and thought, ‘Am I going to suffer a beauteous pistillate who is consenting to beryllium with maine to my precise past enactment due to the fact that I americium acrophobic to accidental yes to a child?'"

But for Kevin, helium said astatine the clip "that's each it took" for him to privation to wed the handbag designer. "Sometimes," helium noted, "you larn the happening you're astir acrophobic of volition prevention your life."

Prior to Christine, Kevin was joined to Cindy Silva from 1978 to 1994.

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