Bachelorette turned bachelor’s degree?
Kevin Costner’s estranged wife, Christine Baumgartner, reportedly revealed her plans for the future amid her contentious divorce from the “Yellowstone” star after a judge ruled that the actor can pay her lower than half of her preferred amount of monthly child support.
“I’ll look into the steps I would like to take and any education I would like to do, and I’ll enter the workforce,” Baumgartner, 49, said in court last week about how she’ll support herself moving forward, based on 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 former 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 could be “insufficient” and result in the kids not living the same lifestyle with each parent.
On Thursday in court, Baumgartner reportedly argued that Costner should cough up more in child support because an opulent life “is in their DNA at this point.”
“It’s an experience,” she claimed, per People, before describing the family home as a “community.”
![Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgatner at vanity fair oscar's party](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000013114220.jpg?w=1024)
“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 next 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 slightly shook up” last week amid the messy split.
![Kevin Costner, 68, took the stand Friday in his ongoing dramatic divorce battle with estranged wife Christine Baumgartner 49.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000014426865.jpg?w=792)
“I even have to handle obligations which might be already in place, I even have a number of responsibilities I even have to handle,” he said about his own future, People reported.
He continued: “I would like to determine how I’m going to spend more time with the children, walk them through this process,” he added. “I’m going to want to take a while for myself. … I even have rather a lot to contemplate — what I have to do versus what I want to do.”