"I fto him bash the antheral thing, and I bash the pistillate thing," Coco told TVGuide.com in 2012 erstwhile asked for the concealed to her lasting narration with her hubby of, astatine the time, 11 years. "Old-fashioned works."

And they ever made clip for day nights. "Especially Sundays, we'll get dressed up for each different and we'll spell to the movies oregon retired to meal oregon something," Coco said. "We marque it special."

Then, astatine home, she'd marque it extra-special. "I similar to effort to marque my location benignant of similar a nine ambiance for him and get successful a super-sexy outfit," she continued. "Sometimes I marque it benignant of similar a portion club, and I'll get sexy and creation for him. Just marque it each him."

But different cardinal to their enslaved is making definite it's ne'er just about 1 of them oregon the other. 

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"You are honestly the nicest idiosyncratic I've ever met. Best MOM successful the world," Ice-T posted connected her 45th day March 17. "And you conscionable get BETTER each year. Chanel and I LOVE you much that words tin explain.. ICE&COCO... Thats One word."

Her latest day message to him Feb. 16 was nary little effusive, Coco calling Ice-T "the emotion of my life" and "the cleanable antheral for me."

They besides ringing successful each caller twelvemonth celebrating their emotion for each other, having said "I do" to everlastingly connected Dec. 31, 2001. (But without a matrimony license, a technicality they remedied 5 years later.)

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Ice-T had been watching The Osbournes connected MTV and reasoning that it mightiness beryllium bully to settee down, that determination was nary mode Ozzy Osbourne would beryllium surviving that comparatively unchangeable home beingness successful a Beverly Hills mansion if not for his missus, Sharon Osbourne.

"You cognize what they say, erstwhile a pistillate finds the close man, it's the close time," helium said connected Behind the Baller. "When a antheral hits the close time, he'll find the close woman."

So determination helium was, astatine a enactment successful Atlantic City, erstwhile helium archetypal laid eyes connected his aboriginal wife, 1 memorable portion of her astatine a time.

"It was her teeth, they were the archetypal things I saw," helium recalled to MailOnline successful 2012. "And past I saw her boobs. And then," helium added with a reported laugh, "when she turned around, that large butt."

In turn, "There was an instant carnal attraction," helium continued, "but I was astatine a constituent successful my beingness wherever I was acceptable to dilatory down. I wanted a partner. I wasn't successful a presumption to beryllium dating a beauteous psychopath."

While Coco's ne'er shied distant from showing disconnected the curves she's truthful arrogant of (curves she's inactive successful the gym weight-training aggregate days a week to maintain), Ice-T decidedly had the incorrect thought astir the then-22-year-old.

"Honestly, I thought she was excessively beauteous to be, arsenic you would say, 'domesticated,'" helium told PR.com successful 2011. "Like, tin we acceptable astatine location oregon is this a miss who conscionable wants to party? But she was like, 'No, I'm ready. Let's conscionable spell snuggle someplace and bash location stuff.'"

Wary astatine first, "I applied the stereotype that everyone does to Coco—that she conscionable wanted to enactment and person a bully time," helium further admitted to MailOnline. "But she was conscionable an honorable and giving woman. She's the nicest person, antheral oregon woman, I've ever met." She adjacent liked the reddish snakeskin suit helium had connected that night, helium marveled.

Not that Ice-T was unfamiliar with the conception of radical making assumptions.

"People deliberation helium conscionable walks around, like, wanting to execution radical 'cause he's a gangsta rapper," Coco told TVGuide.com successful 2012. But helium was really truly "lovable and kind," she added, though "if you're trying to get the teddy carnivore reaction, he's not similar that with everybody else."

They married (the archetypal time) successful Las Vegas conscionable a mates months aft gathering and stay rooted connected the East Coast, wherever Law & Order: SVU is filmed. Ice-T reported for enactment successful 2000 reasoning helium was going to bash 4 episodes and remains a instrumentality favourite connected the enduring NBC procedural, present successful its 26th season, contentedly trading successful Hollywood for the New Jersey suburbs.

The creator besides took a cue from the Prince of Darkness  erstwhile it came to handing the keys to the empire implicit to his fairer half.

"Behind the scenes Coco has really been my idiosyncratic assistant, akin to Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy, moving each my businesses, each the logistics of tours and each that," helium told PR.com successful 2011. "Everything that I bash different than act, Coco's connected the telephone making each those deals hap and doing everything that she's doing with her career, simultaneously. So I've got the casual job. I conscionable spell retired and bash the enactment and Coco handles each the concern down the scenes."

And Ice-T couldn't gush capable astir his ride-or-die, saying, "She's sincere, she's sweet. She's not silly connected a narration level. She's goofy and playful, but she's precise sincere. She means what she says, she didn't lie, she's honorable and she wasn't materialistic. She was conscionable like, 'If you dainty maine right, I'll dainty you right.' That's beauteous overmuch the ground to immoderate bully deal, conscionable dainty each different right. She's lived up to the woody for the past 10 years."

Coco added, "And I wanted to go that eventual pistillate for him. When I was astir him for a mates weeks, I gathered each the facts of what helium liked and what helium didn't like, and I conscionable shape-shifted into that pistillate for him."

Which didn't mean she wasn't being herself, Ice-T pointed out, but rather, "when she finds idiosyncratic she loves, she conscionable wants to bash the champion astatine it. I deliberation what you bash erstwhile you look astatine your mate, you're like, 'OK, well, these are immoderate of the things they dig, this is however they similar it, and it's not a problem. I tin accommodate.' Hopefully the idiosyncratic you meet, what they privation is you. But it's benignant of like, 'Well I privation idiosyncratic who tin navigator spaghetti.' Well then, you cognize what, I'm a f--kin' spaghetti cook, however astir that! And that's erstwhile you say, 'Wow, we're a lucifer here!'"

Kind of similar Ice-T truthful effortlessly playing a cop, their matrimony besides defied expectations.

"People had definite preconceptions of us," helium told MailOnline. "They thought I'd beryllium burying bodies successful the backmost plot and Coco would beryllium disconnected stripping astatine day parties. But we're a mean mates with a mean narration and radical are starting to spot that."

Coco explained to the work that the main reason why she wanted to bash the E! show Ice Loves Coco was to beryllium that looks tin beryllium deceiving.

"I told him, 'Honey, you've been successful the representation 30 years and I've been successful the representation 10 years, [but] radical didn't truly get to spot my property and I was getting sick of proceeding the antagonistic worldly astir me,'" she recounted. "I wanted them to spot the different side—my household side, my wifey side. I had to speech him into it.'"

Ice-T was against the thought astatine archetypal due to the fact that helium thought they were excessively boring—at slightest for world TV. "We don't combat and there's nary of that drama," helium pointed out. And, of course, he'd seen what had happened to different couples who'd opened up their lives successful that way. "I didn't privation to jeopardize our narration for immoderate show," helium noted, "or amp it up for the cameras."

But fans fell for Ice Loves Coco, which ran from 2011 to 2013, and ended up with an wholly caller knowing of the pair. 

"People didn't get america arsenic a couple," Ice-T said, "but the happening is, a large pistillate is large for robbing a bank, but a tough, rowdy feline wants to beryllium with a nice, gentle woman. Coco's gentle and saccharine and nice. She's conscionable an angel."

And, needless to say, starring successful their ain amusement for 3 seasons did not marque Ice emotion Coco immoderate less, oregon vice versa. (Though Ice-T thinks erstwhile was enough, telling In Touch Weekly in May 2021, "After a fewer seasons, mean people's lives loop, and you bash the aforesaid things implicit and over, but that's not entertaining television.")

Looking backmost connected their 2 decades together, "It's a beauteous thing," Ice-T reflected connected Behind the Baller in 2020. "I've been precise fortunate to person Coco successful my corner. You know, each relationships person their ups and downs, they got their bulls--t, but if you truly emotion idiosyncratic you're gonna propulsion through. I'm with Coco for the remainder of the mode out."

With a motion to the little family-friendly days of his past, helium added, "I'm conscionable fortunate to person arrived astatine this place, due to the fact that I ne'er thought I was gonna marque it."

In summation to his beloved wife, "this place" includes their 8-year-old daughter, Chanel, who astatine this signifier of the game, Ice-T said, "is the champion happening that could've happened to me." 

Which is 1 of the reasons wherefore family-of-three clip takes precedence these days implicit unsocial clip arsenic a couple—though they marque definite to pencil that in.

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Ice-T is besides begetter to a 48-year-old daughter, Latesha Marrow, and 32-year-old son, Ice Tracy Marrow Jr., from erstwhile relationships. But helium admitted to Baller that helium was "presents implicit present" for his archetypal child's beingness and, erstwhile his 2nd was born, "I was tryin' to beryllium a star. I took attraction of him and his mother, but I wasn't arsenic focused."

By the clip Chanel was born, helium was afloat determination for Coco, saying, "There's thing other successful beingness I could've got that was gonna beryllium arsenic exciting, arsenic appreciated, arsenic Chanel."

And the aforesaid went for Coco, who archetypal had to upwind years of the accustomed gestation speculation that dogs beauteous overmuch each women, fto unsocial celebrated ones, erstwhile they settee down with a partner. She shared immoderate of the journey, including a infinitesimal erstwhile she thought she might be expecting and was amazingly (to her) disappointed to find retired she wasn't, connected Ice Loves Coco.

Then, erstwhile she recovered retired she was having a daughter...

"I've been underneath the extortion of a male-dominated location forever," the model blogged for E! News successful September 2015. "Ice-T is precise male. The dogs are precise male. I was like, God springiness maine a miss truthful I tin liven things up with immoderate cute fashion. I tin person a idiosyncratic doll. So God answered my supplication and I got a small girl, truthful wherefore the hellhole not would I privation to formal her up?"

When she announced Chanel Nicole's birth on Nov. 28, 2015, Coco shared, "Ice and I are truthful proud! I cried portion she was coming retired I was truthful excited to conscionable her!"

Mother and girl person been inseparable ever since, Chanel rapidly becoming her mom's adorably dressed mini-me. Ice-T acknowledged arsenic overmuch erstwhile helium told In Touch that Chanel would beryllium heading to schoolhouse soon and it was going to beryllium "a precise affectional day"—for Coco.

He reiterated that give-and-take successful a narration is key, explaining, "We code problems quickly. She doesn't say, 'I'm huffy astatine you from past month.' How americium I expected to hole thing if I didn't cognize it was broken? And we compromise. If you privation to triumph each statement and bash immoderate you privation to do, there's a sanction for that—it's called being single!"

And portion he's been grateful to her for having his back, Ice-T has been successful his wife's corner, arsenic well, specified arsenic erstwhile the Internet has travel for her parenting choices. A revelation that she was inactive breastfeeding Chanel erstwhile the kid was 5—"She conscionable likes a small snack each present and then"—really acceptable 'em off.

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