Jaime King Engaged to Austin Sosa Amid Custody Battle With Ex
Jaime King seems to have discovered love once more.
Based on a report by Folks, revealed within the late hours of Tuesday, July 8, the actress, 46, is engaged to funding banker Austin Sosa. The outlet’s report included a Monday, July 7, photograph of King flashing a big diamond on her ring finger whereas leaving a salon in West Hollywood, California.
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for King for remark.
The report comes after King, who finalized her divorce from ex-husband Kyle Newman in September 2023, mentioned throughout the April 10 episode of the “Whine Down With Jana Kramer” podcast that she is going to do the whole lot in her energy “to vary the system” in relation to her and Newman’s custody settlement over their two sons: James, 11, and Leo, 9.
Regardless of the couple agreeing to share custody of their kids when their divorce was finalized, Us obtained courtroom paperwork on March 17 that confirmed that Newman, 49, was awarded sole bodily custody after King allegedly failed to finish a six-month rehabilitation program.
King and Newman nonetheless share joint authorized custody of their kids, however the paperwork confirmed {that a} choose dominated that Newman was given “tie-breaking authority.”
The Hart of Dixie star supplied followers a glimpse into her household life through social media final month. Posting an Instagram carousel of 4 pictures that captured King together with her two sons, she captioned her add, “My God, I’m the luckiest and most nice mom ever.”
The put up additionally acknowledged particular individuals in her life, thanking them for his or her “household eternally” help, together with “Austin.” Sosa, who manages a non-public Instagram account, was additionally tagged within the carousel.
Sosa graduated from Brigham Younger College, per Folks, and now seems to reside in Los Angeles, per his LinkedIn profile.
As for King’s head house throughout latest months, the actress opened up whereas showing on the podcast episode, describing her custody battle with Newman as “terrifying.”
She admitted that she knew little or no about legalities when she and Newman divorced each other. “I assumed that, you recognize, once you select to like somebody, then you definately love that individual. You construct a household with them, and also you belief them. And typically it’s not all the time that manner,” she advised Jana Kramer, 41.
King continued, “I by no means wished my kids to assume that some, any a part of them was incorrect. I’m extraordinarily grateful, and on the similar time, the system is basically unfair. And I believe that it’s actually necessary to help the construction of household and kindness.”