LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian: Co-Parenting Has Its 'Challenges'

LeAnn Rimes, who celebrated her one-year anniversary with husband Eddie Cibrian Sunday, is opening up about the challenges of co-parenting.

The self-described "bonus mom" to Mason, 8, and Jake, 5 -- Cibrian's sons with ex-wife Brandi Glanville -- told "Extra" recently that the past three years have been a "whirlwind."

"Acclimating to having these two little boys in my life and figuring our way around that whole world of you know, co-parenting and kids -- it's been amazing with him and we have a great life, but it's definitely had its challenges," the 29-year-old singer told "Extra's" Terri Seymour, as Cibrian stood by. "We've met them, I think, with grace -- I think it's brought us closer together."

Rimes and Cibrian met on the set of the 2009 television movie "Northern Lights." Rimes and her ex-husband, Dean Sheremet, divorced in December 2009, three months after Cibrian split from Glanville, his wife of eight years. In April 2011, the former co-stars tied the knot.

Despite reports of strained relations between Rimes and Glanville, the pair have reportedly come together at a number of recent family events, including five-year-old Jake's soccer game, where the twosome shared a seat and were photographed laughing with one another.

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[Leilani lei]

03:49 AM on 06/19/2012

LeAnn is really trying hard to hold onto Eddie by losing all that weight. She looks like a malnourished goose from Africa trying to seek asylum here in the U.S.

[Carl Robbins]

08:34 PM on 04/29/2012

I saw her at the Toyota race in Long Beach and you know in person she is very attractive (I'm dead serious) but she looks crappy in a lot of pictures I've seen. I know she's not a model but everything is looks in Hollywood (Entertainment in general). She is not bragging when she said shes a serious vocalist (the best in my estimation) compared to Brittney who is unrecognizable vocally if you ever hear her live.

[OtayPanky]

12:42 PM on 04/30/2012

...she looks crappy in a lot of pictures I've seen.

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She's got that classic cat-people look you see on too many women who get too much plastic surgery.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/entertainment-plasticsurgery/25/

[mijumom]

01:21 AM on 05/02/2012

I've seen her in person and she looked emaciated and worse than pics. I guess it's a matter of perception but I was pretty close and it was scary.

[Cathey Writes]

03:08 AM on 04/29/2012

I think that the kids are the unsung heroes here. They have to deal with the mess the most.

Poo poo on the co-parenting stress.

How about the kids and the back and forth between Mom and Dad and Dad's homewrecker?

[SayWhatAgain]

07:47 PM on 04/28/2012

Holy ****

She must be good at what she does or have the best personality ever because age has not been kind.

[nitwitsRus]

06:54 PM on 04/28/2012

Leann Rimes with WHAT?
where Emiem when
ya need him?

[ilus77]

08:26 PM on 04/28/2012

Stinkin' times
or stinkin' thighs..............better

[Leilani lei]

03:48 AM on 04/28/2012

Co-Parenting is only a challenge for LeAnn because she stole Brandi's husband. How could Brandi be comfortable leaving her kids with the other woman. Sorry LeAnn, but it comes with the baggage you took on.

[Teresa Cline]

11:39 PM on 04/27/2012

Atleast she's not FILLER FACED like his ex Brandi Glanville. I like she says coparenting. She helps coparent but Brandi Glanville ignore it. She's so BITTER

[WeNeed2Change]

07:16 AM on 04/28/2012

Sounds to me like you've spent plenty of time being the 'other woman'. Feeling some kind of way about the wife huh??

[tangelan]

10:19 PM on 04/27/2012

As someone said before. A 10 doesn't get with a 3 unless money changed hands. She should enjoy this while it lasts.

[jmbsjy]

09:56 PM on 04/27/2012

I just don't get it.

[youvegot2bkidding]

09:33 PM on 04/27/2012

What a beast.

[Summer77]

09:15 PM on 04/27/2012

They deserve each other and what ever they get in the future. Is no a question of when one of them will cheat but rather which one will do it first!

[hottingers]

09:10 PM on 04/27/2012

He either does it to her in the dark or from behind or both because looking at her face is like looking into the Ark of the Covenant.

[SonjaGrayce]

09:40 PM on 04/27/2012

You ain't never lied! She isn't easy on the eyes.

[tangelan]

10:18 PM on 04/27/2012

Dang.

[duxguts]

08:46 PM on 04/27/2012

LeAnn, your hubby must feel very secure in the knowledge that you will probably have an affair behind his back one day.

[thecarol]

10:48 PM on 04/29/2012

you're forgetting that cibrian cheated too. they're both gross.

[DuffyShort]

06:51 PM on 04/27/2012

It takes away time from her hobby as a cheater-cheater-pumpkin-eater...