Blac Chyna Just Gave the Simplest (But Hardest) Co-Parenting Advice You’ll Ever Hear
Angela White — still known to most as Blac Chyna — has been steadily rewriting her public story, one parenting win at a time. We’ve seen her shut down body-shaming in a viral bathroom pep talk with her daughter Dream Kardashian. We’ve seen her celebrate a hard-earned 50/50 custody agreement with both of her kids’ dads. And now, she’s distilling her entire co-parenting playbook into one deceptively simple rule: stay in your lane.
“My co-parenting with Rob is 100 percent amazing,” Chyna told People while promoting her upcoming biopic, Pardon Me. “For parents that’s going through it right now, I promise you, things do get better.”
That peace didn’t happen by accident, either. “If you’re going through a custody battle or anything of the sort, I think the main thing for the other parent is to mind their own business,” she explained with a laugh. “Because sometimes — I’m sorry, not like that — I know I’m laughing. It is funny, but I’m not being funny. But no, really, sometimes we do have to mind our own business because sometimes we’ll look in and we might think that we know what the other parent is doing, but it could be the total opposite thing. So, now you’re having an uproar when it has nothing to do with nothing.”
She knows exactly how sideways it can get when you don’t. “Imagine if I’m over here, I wonder, this is probably happening over there. I would probably be miserable and going crazy,” she said. “But I think mind your own business and then have good communication skills. But I mean if you’re already in a custody battle, that might be hard. Mind your own business. I’m sticking with that.”
With Tyga — dad to her 12-year-old son King Cairo — the dynamic is equally calm. “Oh, me and Tyga, we co-parent perfectly. Everybody is, like, Kumbaya.” And that’s because, as she put it, “You have to keep the child first. Sometimes parents, they try to make it about themselves, and you have to do what’s best for the child.”
One final ground rule? “Parents, do not relay messages through your children. Don’t put them in the middle of it,” she said. “Don’t do that, or don’t say slick little things around the child.”
Is it simple? Yes. Deceptively difficult? Also yes. It is still worth it for the sake of the kids? Absolutely.
Before you go, click here to see all the celebrities who have opened up about the struggles of co-parenting.