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WAR: Sara McKenna leaves Manhattan Family Court yesterday in her bi-coastal custody battle with skier Bode Miller (inset). (
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Five-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller is waging a bicoastal custody battle against an ex-girlfriend over a 3-month-old son he has never met and allegedly wanted to abort.
“I’m Catholic,” his rejected lover, Sara McKenna, 27, told The Post, touching the silver cross around her neck. “Bode is an atheist. He doesn’t believe in anything,” the petite blonde former US Marine said. He allegedly told her to end the pregnancy as soon as he learned she had conceived, McKenna said.
The millionaire ski racer dispatched attorneys to Manhattan Family Court yesterday to grumble that an East Coast custody battle with his baby mama over Bode Jr. would be too much of a hassle because he lives in California with his new wife, professional volleyball player Morgan Beck.
“New York is an inconvenient forum,” the champion athlete’s attorney, Barbara Schaffer, told the judge.
Bode, 35, who married Beck while McKenna was pregnant with his child, now wants the Columbia University student back west to fight for visitation and paternity rights.
McKenna’s lawyer told the judge the Olympian was a little late to the fatherhood game.
“If you look at the texts [messages] from Bode Miller to my client, he wanted nothing to do with the baby,” said attorney Kenneth Eiges.
“Why did you do this to me?” the champion athlete pleaded through his smartphone, Eiges quoted Miller in court.
The alpine racer met McKenna, also a former firefighter, through a high-priced matchmaking service called Kelleher last year. The two dated for three months in San Diego, where McKenna was living at the time.
It was a match made in hell, she told The Post.
Miller’s attorney accused McKenna of moving to the Big Apple to exploit the state’s generous family law.
“Why did she make a very precipitous decision to apply to a college 3,000 miles away?” Schaffer scoffed. “It’s no secret New York does not have a presumption as California does of joint custody.”
New York law also provides for child support through age 21, as opposed to cutting off at 18 in California.
“Where my client wants to go to college is in New York. It’s her right,” Eiges shot back.
Dressed in a form-fitting black and green lace dress, McKenna said her ex’s legal wrangling has put her $35,000 in debt.
Bode is reportedly battling a second baby mama in a California court over custody of his 4-year-old daughter.
A Manhattan judge is expected to rule by the end of the month on which coast will host the custody battle.