Coco Austin is sharing the secret to her successful marriage to Ice-T.
“We have an old-fashioned type of love,” the model told Bunnie XO, host of the Dumb Blonde podcast, on Sunday, November 9.
Austin, 46 and rapper and actor Ice-T, 67, have been married for more than two decades and share 9-year-old daughter Chanel.
“He wouldn’t see us having an old-fashioned relationship but we know each other’s places,” added Austin.
Austin explained that a traditional relationship works well for the couple.
“He does his job, works hard … for his money and I feel like my place is [to] keep the house right,” she told Bunnie XO. “That is what I manage — I manage the house, I keep it right, I keep everything sane because when he comes out from the streets into the home, he can now relax.”
Austin opined on why some women who wish for a relationship don’t achieve that happiness.
“Nowadays, I feel like women must be independent … ‘I’m independent. I don’t need a man,’” said Austin. “OK, if you use that, you’re never going to get a man … because men, they want a woman to be submissive — and I know I’ll probably get a lot of hate from that.” Austin added that she considers herself to be a “power woman.”
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Bunnie XO, 45, who is married to country singer Jelly Roll, 40, agreed, saying, “You can be independent and still be submissive for a person that you love.”
“That’s what I do with Ice,” replied Austin. “I’m very submissive, I just bring it down for him. A man wants to be a man. Why can’t a woman be a woman?”
Ice-T, who stars in Law & Order: SVU, has called Austin his “teammate.”
“I value what she brings to me, and I think it’s vice versa,” he told E! News in 2024. “We appreciate each other.”
Austin attributed the longevity of her marriage to her philosophy.
“We know our identities,” explained Austin. “Stop trying to be such a boss. Bring it down. You can be a boss in your world but bring it down a little bit. Men gotta feel like they’re protectors.”
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