Teddi Mellencamp and Edwin Arroyave had been married for 13 years earlier than they separated.
The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, who is among the youngsters of singer John Mellencamp, first met Arroyave in a Hollywood nightclub in 2009.
“I used to be tricked just a little bit as a result of once I first noticed Edwin, he had a beanie cap on,” Teddi recalled to Yahoo! Life-style in 2019. “After which once I noticed him the following morning, the beanie was off and there was a ponytail hanging out the again. I believed after that evening that that was simply a type of [stories] that you just inform your girlfriends, ‘Possibly I’ll hang around with him yet another time.’”
Teddi continued hanging out with Arroyave for 2 years earlier than they wed in her native Indiana. The pair later welcomed daughters Slate and Dove, in addition to son Cruz. (Arroyave can also be father to eldest daughter Isabella, from a earlier relationship.)
After 13 years of marriage and Arroyave supporting Teddi amid her recurring pores and skin most cancers battle, they went their separate methods.
“After a substantial amount of care and consideration, I’ve made the troublesome determination to file for divorce,” Teddi wrote through Instagram in November 2024. “My precedence is my youngsters and making certain that each care is taken with their privateness and wellbeing all through this new chapter.”
Maintain scrolling to revisit Teddi and Arroyave’s relationship ups and downs:
2009
After the pair met in a nightclub, Teddi was sure it could find yourself as a one-time fling.
July 2011
They acquired married two years later in a romantic ceremony in Indiana.
October 2012
Teddi and Arroyave’s first little one collectively, daughter Slate, arrived one 12 months after their marriage ceremony.
“From the second you had been born, we knew you had been an angel on earth. And as you proceed to develop (a youngster subsequent 12 months!), you show that you’re destined for the best of nice issues,” Teddi wrote in 2024, celebrating Slate’s twelfth birthday. “And also you do all of it with a heat, a kindness, and a loving glow that makes everyone who is aware of you higher due to it.”
August 2014
Slate turned an enormous sister in 2014 when the couple welcomed son Cruz. Resulting from a coronary heart situation, Cruz frolicked in a hospital NICU.
December 2017
Teddi obtained a RHOBH diamond throughout season 8 of the Bravo hit, which induced points in her marriage.
“Once we first began, I keep in mind my first day truthfully it was like ‘F—, at what level do I inform everyone that I’m getting a divorce? Like when do I do that?’” Teddi recalled throughout a March 2023 episode of her “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast. “We’re at our worst absolute part, as a result of in truth, for us, it was actually a few energy battle.”
She added, “We had been all the time form of equals after we had been collectively. I rode horses, I used to be aggressive and I used to be all this stuff. Then I couldn’t get pregnant naturally, I did all these IVFs. Then, hastily, he was in control of our funds, and I had by no means been that. I by no means not had my very own cash, I had been working since I used to be 17. Then I simply began hating him.”
She was in the end let go by Bravo after season 10, however often made visitor appearances as a “good friend.”
February 2020
Us Weekly broke the information in September 2019 that Teddi was pregnant once more after present process IVF. Daughter Dove arrived on February 25, shortly earlier than being recognized with lambdoid craniosynostosis that required neurosurgery.
July 2023
By means of the years, Teddi and Arroyave shared candid updates on their household and relationship through social media.
“When was the final time you actually advised your important different precisely what you need and wish? I usually occasions don’t after which let issues construct up and fester,” Teddi wrote through Instagram in July. “I imply aren’t our folks thoughts readers? Can’t they inform what my heavy aggravated respiration means? The reply is not any.”
She continued, “I attempted out being 100% direct with @tedwinator yesterday for my birthday and guess what — it labored like a appeal. I stated:’ You possibly can work till 11 a.m. whereas I take the youngsters driving. After we get again I need a date of my favourite issues.’ … Lengthy story quick: Marriage isn’t simple and all of us have excessive highs and low lows but when we’re susceptible and open up, it might probably result in among the finest days you will have had in a very long time.”
October 2024
Teddi was recognized with pores and skin most cancers in 2022, later chairing a Treatment Melanoma gala to lift consciousness and funds.
“I all the time say life and ache are inseparable and to see @teddimellencamp embrace her ache and use it for the larger good once more final evening as she emceed the @curemelanoma gala, was a lovely reminder of what she is able to,” Arroyave wrote through Instagram on October 25. “Her story has already saved lives. And I couldn’t be prouder that she is going to proceed to avoid wasting extra. Love you, Teds.”
November 2024
Precisely one week after Arroyave’s praise-filled social media tribute, Teddi confirmed her intentions to file for divorce.
Teddi wrote through Instagram, “Making a public assertion shouldn’t be 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 susceptible was the most effective path ahead.”