Todd Chrisley, Julie Chrisley Slam Criticism Over How They Parent Chloe Chrisley
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.
“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.”
For a look at Todd and Julie’s family tree, keep reading…
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Todd Chrisley & Julie Chrisley
Todd Chrisley is the patriarch of the Chrisley family.
He was born in Georgia in April 1969 and raised in South Carolina. He and first wife Teresa Terry welcomed daughter Lindsie Chrisley in 1989 and son Kyle Chrisley in 1991 before splitting a few years later. After their breakup, Todd wed Julie Chrisley (born in South Carolina in January 1973) in 1996.
Together, they added to their family with the births of kids Chase Chrisley, Savannah Chrisley and Grayson Chrisley and the adoption of Kyle’s daughter Chloe Chrisley. They also went through challenges, including Julie’s 2012 breast cancer battle (she’s now cancer-free).
As Todd said on the premiere of Chrisley Knows Best—a show that followed the family’s ups and downs as well as their rich lifestyle in Atlanta and later Nashville—he made “95 percent” of their money through his real estate business before entering reality Tv. As for Julie, she was working at a bank when she started dating Todd.
Chrisley Knows Best ran from 2014 to 2023 and led to spin-offs like Growing Up Chrisley and What’s Cooking With Julie? as well as other media ventures like the family members’ podcasts.
In 2022, Todd and Julie were convicted of fraud and tax crimes, and they were originally sentenced to 12 and seven years in prison, respectively (with him being held in Florida and her being behind bars in Kentucky). The couple had pleaded not guilty.
In May 2025, President Donald Trump pardoned Todd and Julie and they were released from prison.