EXCLUSIVE Ryan Lochte's estranged wife Kayla Reid takes a swipe at the Olympic swimmer with family trip as she slams his embarrassing courtroom blunder
Ryan Lochte 's estranged wife brushed off her divorce drama with a luxe trip to Las Vegas – after scolding her swimmer ex for getting the birthdays of their three kids wrong in court papers.
Former Playboy beauty Kayla Rae Reid, 33, headed to Sin City for a fun-packed weekend to celebrate eldest son Caiden turning eight on Sunday, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The model-turned-realtor posted cute Instagram shots of Caiden and little sisters Liv, 5, and 23-month-old Georgia enjoying ice creams on the strip, visiting an aquarium and checking out the M&M's store.
She also showed former Olympian Lochte, 40, exactly what he's missing by stripping down to a sexy bikini and diving into a luxurious outdoor pool – captioning her video: 'Get this pale body a tan.'
Kayla's glam getaway comes after she chided her estranged husband for seemingly forgetting the trio's correct dates of birth in recent court filings.
The Lochte kids all have June birthdays – but their dad's muddled papers say they were born in May, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Kayla announced earlier this week that her seven-year marriage to Lochte was dead in the water.
'I made the hard decision to end my marriage after deep prayer and reflection,' she wrote on Instagram.
'I hold marriage in the highest regard, so this has been one of the most painful, revealing, and challenging seasons of my life.
'I've been hesitant to share until I could do so from a place of healing – not from fresh, open wounds.'
Kayla's statement referenced 'trials we didn't choose or see coming' – but she didn't say why she split from the rugged ex-Olympian on March 7.
Her petition, filed several weeks later in north central Florida's Alachua County, merely noted that their once podium-topping union was 'irretrievably broken'.
Caiden and younger sister Liv, who wore a birthday tiara in honor of her brother, were seen enjoying ice cream on the strip, along with another friend who joined them on the trip
She's demanding exclusive use of the $700,000, four-bed marital home in Gainesville and alimony to fund study, retraining and the costs of being a single mom.
She also wants their assets – and debts – carved up fairly and Lochte, a 12-time Olympic medalist, to cover her legal fees because 'wife is financially unable to pay.'
The court should consider the 'intentional dissipation, waste, depletion or destruction of marital assets by husband after the filing of the petition or within 2 years prior to the filing of the petition,' wrote her attorney, Kevin Jurecko.
When it comes to the kids, Kayla asked the court for 'sole parenting responsibility' or at least 'ultimate decision-making authority' and 'majority timesharing'.
'Wife is fit and proper to assume sole parental responsibility for the minor children of the parties. Shared parental responsibility would be detrimental to the children,' her lawyers wrote.
Lochte responded by insisting it was in the best interests of Caiden, Liv and Georgia for their parents to share custody.
The 33-year-old also showed the former Olympian exactly what he's missing by posting a video of herself in a sexy bikini and diving into an outdoor pool
The couple, who have three young children together, announced the news of their split last week after seven years of marriage
But his April 28 counter-petition, prepared by attorney Justin Jacobson, made multiple errors when it came to details of their birthdays and places of birth.
Lochte said all three were born in May but – as Kayla pointed out in a subsequent filing – Caiden was born June 8, 2017, Liv was born June 17, 2019, and Georgia was born June 21, 2023.
Her May 15 missive also noted that Caiden was born in Los Angeles, not in Gainesville, as Lochte had suggested.
Jacobson declined to discuss the mistakes while Lochte couldn't be reached for comment.
He's renting a three-bed, $420,000 house five minutes from his marital home.
Lochte released his own statement acknowledging he and Kayla had made 'the difficult decision' to go their separate ways.
Kayla, seen in 2016 at Playboy Midsummer Night's Dream party, was previously a Playmate
'I'm deeply grateful for the life we've built together and especially for the love we share for our three children,' he said.
'Although this decision hasn't been easy, I believe it's the right step toward peace and well-being for us both.
'I remain committed to healing, growth, and co-parenting with care and respect as we move forward separately.'
Kayla went public on her romance with Lochte during an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Posing for photos on the rooftop of a luxury hotel, the Fairfax, Virginia native described her hunky new beau as 'kind, humble and, of course, unbelievably good looking.'
She added: 'He also has more depth than you could possibly imagine.'
Within days, however, their romance was overshadowed by a bizarre episode dubbed 'Lochtegate'.
The swimmer and teammates Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger claimed they were robbed at gunpoint when a night out in Rio turned to terror.
But their story unraveled when DailyMail.com published CCTV of the four friends walking into the Olympic village laughing to themselves and looking completely unruffled by their supposed ordeal.
A judge ordered an inquiry after viewing our video and it was later revealed that Lochte fabricated the story after a drunken clash with a gas station security guard who caught them peeing against a wall.
He was charged with submitting a false report to police but the case was dropped after Lochte made a groveling apology.
Lochte and Kayla tied the knot in Palm Springs, California, in January 2018.
That same year, he served a 14-month ban for using a prohibited IV infusion and spent six weeks in rehab for alcoholism.
The Rochester, New York, native decided to get help after an incident at a hotel in California. Police were called after he tried to kick his door in, though no arrests were made.
'It helped put things in perspective in my life,' Lochte later reflected.
'What is really more important than going out to a bar and getting hammered or doing anything like that, I go home and I get to play with my kids and kiss and hold my wife. That, to me, is everything.'
Lochte has never formally retired from competitive swimming but hasn't participated in US Olympic team trials since 2021.
Last year he revealed that he was in a severe car accident and spent ten months recovering from a shattered thigh bone.
Lochte told the Athletes Only podcast that he crashed into a truck while on his way to pick up his children from school.
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