Ice-T gushed about how he’s been able to make 25 years of marriage work with wife Coco Austin on a recent episode of Sherri.
The artist and actor met Austin in 2001 on a music video set and quickly fell in love, and they wed the following year. In 2015, the couple welcomed their first child together, Chanel, who’s now 10.
Around the five-minute mark of the episode below, host Sherri Shepherd asked Ice-T, 67, how he and Austij, 46, have kept their marriage “sexy.” The Law & Order: SVU actor called his wife an “extrovert” and “borderline exhibitionist.”
“She just loves herself,” he said, adding that Austin was a “fitness champion.” “She's just been fortunate with good genes, and she looks good, and that's just her and I'm very happy about that.”
Austin became a swimsuit model at 18 and worked at the Playboy Mansion in the early 2000s.
“I don't want to be that guy on the beach wearing a sweatshirt in the pool,” Ice-T said. “I never wanted people to be like, why is she with him? So she’s keeping me thin in the waist, handsome in the face.”
Ice added that finding the right partner is like “casting for a movie,” something he also explained on a January episode of podcast Prince St. Pizza.
“But at the end of the day, you go, ‘But I love you.’ You my partner,’” Ice said, adding that he wants to be with Austin “for the rest of my life.”
On Prince St. Pizza, Ice called Austin a “party girl” and denied being “intimidated” by her outgoing personality.