Every season of The Real Housewives of New York City there are questions about the cast, especially the new faces. Season 15 is no exception, with the show returning with the entire cast of the Season 14 reboot, including — Jenna Lyons, Ubah Hassan, Sai De Silva, Jessel Taank, Erin Lichy, and Brynn Whitfield plus two new housewives, Rebecca Minkoff and Racquel Chevremont.
Racquel, a renowned art curator and model, is the second member of the LGBTQ+ community to appear on the show. She is currently engaged to Mel Corpus. In the show, however, Racquel was open about the fact that she was married to a man before she came out. She has two children with her ex-husband.
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The Real Housewives of New York City is a Bravo reality show that follows a group of married women from New York trying to juggle social events, family, motherhood, and their careers. It is one of many offshoots of the Real Housewives franchise, which boasts 11 US editions and 21 international editions, including The Real Housewives of Orange County, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, The Real Housewives of Miami, and The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
But who is Racquel Chevremont’s ex-husband and the father of her kids? And do the two still get along?
Who’s Racquel Chevremont’s ex-husband from RHONY?
Racquel Chevremont’s ex-husband is called Corey Baylor and he is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of his own New York-based business, HBX Capital Management. The two married in the early 2000s and welcomed their first child together, Corey Jr., in 2007. Later, they had a daughter, Elle.
By 2010 her marriage started to have issues and in 2013 Baylor filed for divorce. Chevremont discussed her divorce in the RHONY Season 15 premiere, telling the story of how she and Jenna Lyons bonded over divorcing men and coming out later in life.
“I met Jenna in 2012, just as she was in the middle of a divorce and coming out, and I was doing the same,” Racquel said during a confessional. “It almost validated what I was going through. I don’t know what I would have done if I had not met someone else who was going through the exact same thing.”
She also discussed her divorce during the show’s sixth episode of the season, as she prepares to go public with her engagement. During the hour, she explained that she and her ex-husband kept the breakup on the down low for a while, so when she started dating someone else, people suspected she had an affair. For Racquel, this was very hard, especially because it wasn’t true.
Not much else is known about Baylor, other than that he is active in his children’s lives and seems to still have a cordial relationship with Chevremont. After her split from Baylor, the reality TV star dated and then got engaged to Mickalene Thomas. The two, however, called off their engagement in 2020.
Today, the reality TV star is happy with her fiancée and also shared that the two didn’t pursue a romantic relationship for a long time, and then things just fell into place at the right moment.
“Mel and I, we’ve been friends for over 12 years,” Racquel explained. “We were very single when we got together, but there was a bit of a scandal. There were a few people that were not all that happy,” she said in a previous episode, which ties into what she shared about people thinking she’d had an affair. But Chevremont was clear: there was no affair. It was just good timing.
