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As her marriage ends, Kim Plath is returning to her roots — on the water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In an exclusive clip shared with ET from the <\/span>season six premiere of\u00a0Welcome to Plathville<\/em><\/a>, the mom of nine takes viewers inside her new home: a 33-foot Chris-Craft boat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s sort of a less expensive way of having waterfront property,” she says in the new footage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While it’s certainly a change from the farm and homes she shared with ex Barry, boat life is not foreign to Kim. “I grew up on a sailboat and I loved it, so I bought a boat,” she explains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As for her daughters — who spend time with her on the boat in the preview clip — she wants them “to see the boat as gaining a bike trailer and a river and all of this natural beauty around them.”<\/span><\/p>\n Still, it’s an adjustment for her youngest daughters, Cassia, Amber, and Mercy, as they maneuver around the tight living quarters — including two beds doubling as couches — and take turns with a tiny bathroom. As Kim explains, they also can use bathrooms at the marina, which are more spacious, particularly for showering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I really worked hard to make it as livable for them as possible,” Kim says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While she and Barry have been separated since December 2021, Kim <\/span>only recently filed for divorce on June 26<\/a> after they tied the knot 27 years ago in 1997.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the divorce filing, obtained by ET, Kim is seeking primary custody of their three minor children with a request that Barry pay child support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The former husband and wife welcomed 10 children together:\u00a0Ethan, Hosanna, Micah, Moriah, Lydia, Isaac, Amber, Cassia, and Mercy. Their son, Joshua, died in an accident in 2008 at 17 months old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n