Celebrity Exes Spend Holidays With Their Kids: Coparenting Plans

Feeling festive as a family! Jana Kramer, Kristin Cavallari and more celebrities have spent holidays with their exes for their kids’ sakes.

Ahead of Thanksgiving 2021, the One Tree Hill alum exclusively told Us Weekly that being away from her daughter, Jolie, and her son, Jace, was “not going to be easy.”

The actress split from Mike Caussin in April 2021 and explained seven months later: “I can honestly barely talk about it without getting emotional. It’s going to be rough. Next year I can’t even think about not having them on Christmas Eve night. Instead of, kind of, future tripping, I’m like, ‘OK, just take it day by day.’”

The Michigan native noted that she wanted the time to be “amazing” for her and the former professional football player’s kids.

“I’m looking forward to it, but I’m scared of it too,” Kramer told Us. “I want to do some of the same things that we’ve always done with the kids, which is like they [bake] cookies and decorate the tree together and open one gift on Christmas Eve. I need to find something that is just us that I haven’t done from years [past].”

BH90210‘s Jennie Garth encouraged the “Whine Down” podcast host to put on a brave face for her kids when hanging lights made her “depress[ed].”

Kramer explained, “[Jennie was] like, ‘You do it for the kids.’ And [I said], ‘Oh, my gosh, I didn’t even think about that.’ So now it’s, like, I want to create something that’s really special for us three. Just our little special memory and special tradition that we do together as a family of three. I don’t know what it is yet, but I’m trying to think of it.”

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As for Cavallari, the Uncommon James creator split from Jay Cutler in April 2020 after welcoming sons Camden and Jaxon and daughter Saylor.

“For me, it’s just about putting the kids first,” the Very Cavallari alum exclusively told Us in November 2021. “The kids are the only thing that matters and what’s best for them. That’s how I look at it. You’ve just got to make the most of it. … Luckily, we are able to spend it together, and I’m really grateful for that.”

The former reality star shared some of her family’s traditions, explaining, “We have the elves come. We did this long before Elf on the Shelf. The elves come a week before Christmas and if you’re good, they put a little something in your stocking. If you’re bad, you get coal. I always do an Italian meal on Christmas Eve, which is really fun.”

Keep scrolling to how more celebrity exes have decided to spend the holidays with their little ones, from The Challenge’s Cory Wharton and Cheyenne Floyd to Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson.

The actress trick-or-treated with her ex-husband and his “wonderful” wife, Alexandra Michler, in October 2021. “You’re never not together if you have children,” Barrymore said on a November 2021 episode of her talk show. “All the ‘modern family,’ ‘exes’ aside, you’re just parents. That’s what makes sense to me. I say this just trying to put one foot in front of the other with a lot of love and good intentions. High road, baby, less traffic.”

“Kyle and I may not be married or building a life together any longer, but we are definitely in total lock step when it comes to the kids and making sure they’re as supported as possible,” the Undateable alum captioned family Halloween photos via Instagram in October 2021. “It makes me really proud to see how much love they’re surrounded by and how proud THEY seem of our little modern family. I definitely feel more on the same page with Kyle when it comes to the kids now as opposed to when we were married.”

“I’m beyond thankful for my beautiful babies,” the “Beautiful Lies” singer told her Instagram followers in November 2021. “My heart hurts not being with them today and I have a feeling whether it’s the first holiday apart or the 30th there will always be an ache in the heart.”

The Dash Dolls alum posed with her ex and their son, Ace, for a holiday-themed photo shoot in December 2020.

In October 2020, the Hills alum told Us that she planned to spend Thanksgiving with Cutler, saying, “I’m looking forward to that. Jay and I were discussing the menu together yesterday, and he’ll be on meat duty. I think he’s gonna fry a turkey and smoke a lamb leg, and then I’m gonna do everything else.”

In December 2019, the MTV personalities spent Christmas together with their daughter, Ryder, and Wharton’s partner, Taylor Selfridge. “Merry Christmas from my crazy blended family to yours,” Floyd wrote via Instagram at the time.

In December 2019, the Southern Charm stars reunited for Christmas with daughter Kensie and son Saint.

The reality star and NBA player reunited at the annual Kardashian Christmas party that same year.

“Tay’s Christmas performance was sooo cute!! glad my dad got to come too. We all sit together – my family and Tarek’s family,” the Christina on the Coast star wrote via Instagram in December 2019. “A couple people acknowledged how nice this is – I know there are a lot of divorced couples (including Tarek’s mom and dad) who do this too and it’s honestly easier for everyone.”

In December 2015, the former couple spent Christmas Eve with Henry, Lent, Johan and Lou as a family.