Todd Chrisley, Julie Chrisley Slam Criticism Over How They Parent Chloe Chrisley
Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley hit back on critics who expressed skepticism about the way they are raising their 13-year-old daughter Chloe Chrisley: “She is being brought up to love and respect.
Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley know best when it comes to their parenting style.
The former reality TV stars pushed back on the criticism surrounding how their dynamic with their youngest Chloe Chrisley, 13.
“We are raising Chloe as our child,” Todd said about Chloe—the biological daughter of his son Kyle Chrisley and ex Angela Johnson—on the March 11 episode of his and Julie’s Chrisley Confessions 2.0 podcast. “She is being brought up to love and respect. And to be a good decent human being.”
“What we’re sitting here teaching her is about God, about family, about being kind, generous, considerate,” the 56-year-old added. “Those are the things that we teach her. And the way that we’re bringing her up is working.”
Indeed, Todd—also dad to Chase Chrisley, 29, Savannah Chrisley, 28, and Grayson Chrisley, 19, with Julie and daughter Lindsie Chrisley, 36, with ex Teresa Terry—emphasized how Chloe is celebrated daily at school.
“Look at how people say that she’s not for conflict,” he said to Julie. “That she tries to tone that down. That she’s the one that they come to pull out of class because she’s the new friend when someone comes into the school new. How she’s so kind and considerate. That’s what we’re raising.”
For Julie, making sure Chloe to understands that she is biracial is important, but it’s not the focus of their parenting style.
“I also have hard conversations with her, like, ‘Yes honey you are half white. You are half Black,’” Julie said. “If you are driving in a car at 16 and you get pulled over and they call in, they will say, ‘I have an African American, 16-year-old girl here.’”
And they are well aware that they’ll make missteps as parents.
And they are well aware that they’ll make missteps as parents.
“We are raising another child, Are we perfect parents? No, there’s no such thing as perfect parents,” Julie added. “We’re on number six. I can tell you that I love her unconditionally, that she is my child. That I am never going to do anything ever to harm her in any way. At the end of the day, I’m her mother. And I’m going and I have, continue to raise her just like I’ve raised the other children, whether you like it or whether you don’t.”
As for Chloe’s thoughts on the public’s perception of her family? Todd shared she’s tuning out the noise.
“I actually talked to Chloe the day before yesterday and said, ‘How does it make you feel to know that we’re not doing something or doing something to make people think that?’” he recalled, “And she goes, ‘Well that’s their opinion, I don’t live my life to please everyone else. I live my life to please God and my family and myself.’”
Todd—who along with Julie was released from prison in May after their fraud convictions were pardoned by President Donald trump—previously offered an update on Chloe’s teenage personality.
“She’s 13 now, and she has such a huge personality,” Todd said on the Jan. 14 episode of the Chrisley Confessions 2.0 podcast. “I mean her personality is coming out more every day.”
Though he said his youngest daughter was “lippy” he continued to dote on her, noting, “She is such a funny kid. She’s got a good personality. She and I have a good banter back and forth. I love her and I’ve got a great relationship with her.”
