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Published 14:26 12 May 2023 GMT
Coco Austin's daughter has adorably revealed to her mom that she loved her from the very moment she was born.
The 44-year-old model and her 65-year-old husband Ice-T got married in 2002 and welcomed their seven-year-old daughter, Chanel in 2015.
During an exclusive preview of Friday's episode of the Tamron Hall Show, the mother and daughter duo appeared on the show with Eva Amurri, Erica Dickerson, Jamilah Mapp, and Dena Blizzard to celebrate Mother's Day.
The episode dedicated to the special holiday - which is on Sunday (May 14) - will give the moms the opportunity to share their insights into motherhood.
The snippet shared by the talk show revealed the 52-year-old host asking Chanel if she wants to say something to her mom. The little girl then turned to Austin and heartwarmingly said: "The first time I was born, I loved you."
Watch the sweet moment belowAustin - whose real name is Nicole Natalie Marrow - then corrects her daughter by asking, "The first moment?" to which Chanel responds: "Yeah, the first moment! The first moment I was born."
"You remember that moment? You do?" the TV personality continues to ask as she gives her baby girl a hug. "Yeah, kind of, yeah," Chanel says.
She then questioned: "You remember laying on my chest? And looking up at me?" to which her child answers: "Yeah. Yeah." The mom then quips: "I'm glad that [the birth] was quick. Thank you so much [for that]."
With some help from the host, the little girl handed out different flowers to each of the mothers on the panel.
Austin and her husband have made headlines for their close relationship with their young daughter. This week, the rapper - whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow - revealed that Chanel still sleeps in the same bed as her parents.
"I was there when Coco was pregnant, I went to the hospital and Chanel still sleeps in the bed with," he said on the That Moment with Daymond John podcast. "So I’m so much more connected to her than my other kids. But it’s been a beautiful thing."
The New Jack Hustler also opened up about his eldest children, Letesha, 47, and Tracy Jr, 31 - whom he had with previous partners. He explained that he’s more present in his youngest child's life than he was with his oldest.
"I think the difference with Chanel and my other kids is I’m very conscious of this baby," he said. "I had my daughter when I was in high school, I was ripping and running. So it was presents over presence. I wasn’t there."
Ice-T's parenting comments come months after his wife was criticized after she posted an Instagram video of her giving Chanel a bath in a kitchen sink.
At the time, Austin took to Twitter to address the backlash, penning: "Wow just Wow! Here we go again! Giving my lil girl a bath in the sink went Viral? SMH! People,you gotta know by now that I’m an unconventional mother. I do what works and is easier on me. Some may want to take some pointers rather than rag on me!"
Tamron Hall's Mother's Day episode airs Friday, May 12.
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Published 11:40 03 Aug 2021 GMT
Coco Austin has revealed in a new interview why she still breastfeeds her five-year-old daughter.
The reality star, 42, gave birth to her daughter Chanel in November 2015, and she has been repeatedly subject to criticism for her decision to breastfeed long after the CDC recommendation of 12 months old.
"Chanel still likes my boob. She's 5 years old," Coco, who shares Chanel with husband Ice-T, told Us Weekly. "A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you're not getting the nutrition after 2 years old. Why do it?'
"And I'm like, My child's eating steak and hamburgers. She just likes a little snack every now and then and more of the bonding between the mother. Why take that away from her?"
The TV personality explained that while she is aware that there is a societal expectation for children to stop breastfeeding by her daughter's age, she is not going to stop because of it.
Instead, she is going to wait until her daughter no longer wants to breastfeed.
She said: "I'm not going to just say, 'No boob!'"
Explaining how she is physically still able to breastfeed five years after giving birth, Coco explained that it has become a comforting bedtime routine for her daughter rather than a source of nutrition.
Chanel herself said: "You know what? The boo boo makes me sleep.
"She loves on it and it's not like she's getting milk from it, but she's getting her little snack and it's kind of soothing her to sleep."
Coco concluded her interview with the news outlet by saying that as a mother, she's decided not to deprive her daughter of something she wants, even if it goes against societal expectations.
"I don't want to deprive her of something she wants, just because society says you need to stop after 2," she added.
Coco is not alone in her decision to defend breastfeeding Chanel, and Ice-T has also spoken out in her defense.
Back in 2019, he told TMZ that breastfeeding has never been exclusively for babies.
He said that she does it "every once in a while, you know what I'm saying? If she wants to get close to her mum, what's the big deal? She eats food, she eats f**king cheeseburgers."
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Published 15:58 27 May 2022 GMT
Coco Austin is hitting back at critics after they slammed her for taking her six-year-old out in a stroller.
The actor and model called out her haters on Twitter, saying the criticisms were "ridiculous".
Coco and her husband Ice-T made headlines over the weekend when they shared a picture of themselves and their six-year-old daughter Chanel out on a family shopping trip.
In the sweet snap, Coco and Ice-T pose for a mirror selfie while their daughter sits in her stroller with her head in her hands, clearly fed up and bored with the outing.
"A stroll through the @atlantisbahamas shops," Coco wrote in the caption, adding: "Chanel is so over it unless there's something cool to see. Her face transitions instantly."
Many of Coco's followers had their own thoughts on why Chanel looked so grumpy and took to the comments section to tease her for still putting her daughter in a stroller.
"She looks like she’s over being in a baby stroller," one write, while another added: "I love you coco but .. a stroller…"
"A stroller really? Let that girl grow up," a third commented, while a fourth agreed: "Why she is in a stroller at 6 years old?"
On Tuesday, Coco took to Twitter to dismiss the critical comments that had come her way.
"Oh lord!! Really people? The world loves to criticize literary everything i do!" the 43-year-old mom wrote.
"This stroller thing trending right now about me using a stroller to push Chanel around is ridiculous!" she continued in another tweet, adding: "Isnt there a war & mass shootings going as we speak & you’d rather mess with my mothering? SMH."
This isn't the first time Coco's parenting techniques have come under fire. She's also been called out for continued to let her daughter breastfeed - a decision which she passionately defended.
"Chanel still likes my boob. She's 5 years old," Coco told Us Weekly. "A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you're not getting the nutrition after 2 years old. Why do it?'
"And I'm like, My child's eating steak and hamburgers. She just likes a little snack every now and then and more of the bonding between the mother. Why take that away from her?"
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Published 16:09 30 Sep 2022 GMT
Coco Austin has clapped back at fans after they slammed her for bathing her daughter in a sink.
Last weekend, the 43-year-old TV personality took to Instagram to share a clip of her six-year-old Chanel - who she shares with rapper Ice T - having a wash in the kitchen basin.
In overlay text, Austin explained that she didn't have long to get her daughter ready for a Patricia Field fashion show.
"The sink is easiest when you have to be fast," she wrote, adding: "We only had an hour to get ready and figure out what to wear."
Chanel looked perfectly happy in the sink, where she sat in front of her iPad while her mom washed her hair. Despite this, the video sparked debate among Austin's followers, with many of them criticizing her parenting.
After several news outlets reported on the backlash, the TV personality took to Twitter to hit back at her haters, writing: "Wow just Wow! Here we go again!"
"Giving my lil girl a bath in the sink went Viral? SMH," she continued in outrage.
"People, you gotta know by now that I'm an unconventional mother. I do what works and is easier on me. Some may want to take some pointers rather than rag on me," Austin added.
This isn't the first time that the celebrity couple has caused a stir over their parenting. When it was revealed that Austin and the 64-year-old rapper still push their child around in a stroller, there was a backlash.
The model took to Twitter to respond to the outrage and wrote: "Oh lord!! Really people? The world loves to criticize literally everything I do!"
Before that, Austin courted controversy when she revealed that she still breastfed her daughter when she was five years old.
"Chanel still likes my boob. She's five years old," she told Us Weekly, adding: "And I'm like, My child's eating steak and hamburgers. She just likes a little snack every now and then and more of the bonding between the mother. Why take that away from her?"
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Published 11:52 25 Sep 2022 GMT
Coco Austin has sparked a heap of controversy on social media after revealing that she bathes her daughter in the kitchen sink.
The 43-year-old model and TV personality took to her Instagram to share a video of her six-year-old Chanel - whom she shares with rapper Ice-T - getting ready for a fashion show.
However, the video has raised eyebrows with her followers after she panned the camera over to Chanel bathing in the kitchen sink.
"The sink is easiest when you have to be fast," she wrote in the overlay text of the video. "We only had an hour to get ready and figure out what to wear."
Watch her video below:In the video, the mother explained she "only had an hour" to figure out what to wear and do her hair and makeup. She also wrote that the daughter picked her outfit out for her first-ever fashion show.
Despite the reality star's explanation, the decision to wash her youngster in the kitchen sink divided many users and sparked a debate in the comment section.
One user said: "You go in the bathroom to do your hair but can’t bathe your baby in there?! you lost me, babe."
Another wrote: "How do Americans think it’s okay to [bathe] a baby let alone a child bath in the sink where you wash your dishes you eat out of?"
A third commented: "I think she a bit [too] old for the sink! If she can put her lil heels on, she can get [in] the shower or bath tube."
A fourth shared: "Are you kidding?! In the kitchen sink!! SHE’s not a BABY ANYMORE!"
However, others were quick to defend Austin's parenting decision from the criticism and insisted that sink baths were "the best" and that
One user wrote: "So ridiculous ppl would shame you for doing this! I lived in transitional housing before n had to share a bathroom with like 6 girls n their little ones, mine was only a year old, but still, I usually chose to use to sink because it was easiest, esp in a hurry!!!"
While another commented: "Who the f*** cares how she bathes her daughter? Y’all got too much time on ya hands."
A third said: "If ALL you people don’t eat out of this sink then why are y’all so concerned??"
Many, many more marveled at the size of her kitchen sink, with one user joking: "Girl how deep is your sink I need this in my life."
This isn't the first time that the celebrity couple has caused a stir over their parenting. When it was revealed that Austin and the 64-year-old rapper still push their child around in a stroller, there was a backlash.
The model took to Twitter to respond to the outrage and wrote: "Oh lord!! Really people? The world loves to criticize literally everything I do!"
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Published 17:13 15 Mar 2020 GMT
Coco Austin has received backlash on social media after posting a picture of herself breasting her four-year-old daughter.
Taking to Instagram, the 40-year-old posted a snap to her three million followers show her breastfeeding her daughter Chanel, who she shares with husband Ice T.
Austin captioned the picture: "At a time when the world feels like its coming to an end … suck up as much love as you can!"
Related - New mom Ashley Graham recently shared this video of herself pumping breastmilk in the back of an Uber:
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Austin continued: "I know the moms out there will appreciate this pic! Ive been getting alot of props in the breasfeeding [sic] community and get tons of emails from woman/moms appreciating me bringing light to the subject … I write a baby blog about my journey with Chanel and soon I will write about what it's like to continue boob time with a 4-year-old."
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Austin then explained that the reason she is continuing to feed her daughter is for comfort reasons, writing that she gets "tons and tons of requests that want me to speak on. At this point in nursing its [sic] just for comfort and believe me the girl loves meat so its [sic] not like she isnt [sic] eating real food."
While Austin's intentions for posting the picture to her three million Instagram followers may have been good, not everyone agreed with it.
One critic wrote: "Now for who's comfort?? she's 4, is cuddling and playing not comfort enough??"
A second added: "Love you Coco but when your child is old enough to communicate with their peers and you aren't producing breast milk, it's time to pull the plug. Her coping skills on how to self comfort should be independent at this age."
Another remarked: "That is absolutely ridiculous for a 4 year old [sic] to still be breastfeeding! ?
"I see in other posts that people are saying it's your choice and all - FINE - then don't show pictures if it keep it private! I personally think women who breastfeed after a year are 'getting off' on it!
"It's sick and keep in mind with you posting pictures of it you are setting your daughter up with a lot to deal with later as far as ridicule! If you want to do it - KEEP IT PRIVATE! Although you are a narcissist si [sic] may be hard for you to do that!!"
However, as Austin intended, there were some moms who appreciated the picture.
One mom who agreed with the comfort continued breastfeeding can bring a child, wrote: "Love it! Human milk for a human child nothing's healthier not to mention the love, emotional and security aspect of it, she's beautiful [sic] good job!"
Another wrote: "Thank you for this! I breastfeed my 4 year old [sic] for the same reason and this really helped me because sometimes people shame you."
This isn't the first time that Austin's breastfeeding has caused controversy on social media. A similar storm was whipped up when she posted a different breastfeeding picture in September of last year, forcing Ice-T to defend her.
