Why the Ingredients of Ice-T and Coco Austin’s Love Story Make the Perfect Blend

Ice-T is also father to a 48-year-old daughter, Latesha Marrow, and 32-year-old son, Ice Tracy Marrow Jr., from previous relationships. But he admitted to Baller that he was “presents over present” for his first child’s life and, when his second was born, “I was tryin’ to be a star. I took care of him and his mother, but I wasn’t as focused.”

By the time Chanel was born, he was fully there for Coco, saying, “There’s nothing else in life I could’ve got that was gonna be as exciting, as appreciated, as Chanel.”

And the same went for Coco, who first had to weather years of the usual pregnancy speculation that dogs pretty much all women, let alone famous ones, when they settle down with a partner. She shared some of the journey, including a moment when she thought she might be expecting and was surprisingly (to her) disappointed to find out she wasn’t, on Ice Loves Coco.

Then, when she found out she was having a daughter…

“I’ve been underneath the roof of a male-dominated house forever,” the model blogged for E! News in September 2015. “Ice-T is very male. The dogs are very male. I was like, God give me a girl so I can liven things up with some cute fashion. I can have a personal doll. So God answered my prayer and I got a little girl, so why the hell not would I want to dress her up?”