SHAUNIE O’NEAL: “I DID NOT WANT MY KIDS TO BE FROM A BROKEN HOME”
Shaunie with her children(from left to right): Shaquir Rashuan,7; Amirah Sanaa,8; Myles Lamar,12,(seated); Me’Arah Sanaa,3; and Shareef Rashaun,10.
“I did not want my kids to be from a broken home. I was willing to suffer and make the best of the situation for their sake.”
According to several credible sources, a divorce settlement has been reached between Shaquille O’neal and his estranged wife, Shaunie O’neal. Per reports, the former couple have reached an agreement on all terms of the divorce, including property, custody and support.
The divorce settlement comes less than six months after Shaunie filed for legal separation in November of 2009. Since then, Shaunie and Shaq have become friends and are trying to be the best parents they can be.
“We are becoming friends, and it’s nice because it’s something we really lacked in our marriage. I enjoy being able to talk openly to him, and i think we’ve both learned a lot from each other during this time. i tease him now and tell him, ‘You’re a good person with a great heart, but a terrible husband. Please, don’t get married again-just date.’ We both want to be the best parents we can be.”
Read the entire article in the latest issue of Essence magazine, which is on stands now!
Shaunie has an upcoming reality series called Basketball Wives, which will soon debut on VH1.
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Woowww she looks great after having five kids. I am glad that they are being friends for the kids sake. Sometimes you have to let go even when kids are involved. It’s hard b/c of the kids and all, but it is what it is. Beautiful family!!
They look great in white. Out of all those kids there are sure to be a few NBA/WNBA professionals!
Shaunie looks awesome!!! I’m glad her and Shaq are amicable for the kids sake. Their boys are tall!!!
WOW!! she does look good to have had 5 kids, all the kids are beautiful and I wish her many blessing!!
Cute kids. Very interesting that they have the same middle name (the two girls and two of the boys I mean). I hate divorce but I’m glad they were able to become friends.
yeah I noticed the middle names too
im sorry Shaq..but thoSe kids are ALL Shauniez! they took ya height tho Lol.. i cant beLieve how big they got maan!
I know! I can’t believe how big their 3yo is.
It’s good to know they’re getting along again.
“i tease him now and tell him, ‘You’re a good person with a great heart, but a terrible husband.”
well you married him…hope for the best tho
Rumor has it she left her first husband for Shaq, so what could she expect?
Shaq has 6 children. He has a daughter older than those 5 children who he used to call “Little Diesel.”
I love that picture! What a beautiful family, but that is one big 3 year old! I guess they get that from their dad!!! I salute them for coming to terms on their marriage dissolution because it is hard to sort things out especially when you have lawyers in your ear and the media in your face!
They have a beautiful family. But, I thought that the little girls are really big in a strange way. The boys look regular for their age to me. But, those little girls took right after their dad and that is definatly not a good thing. That 3 year old is almost her size. I saw them on t.v. and the other little girl is huge as well. They are all good-looking though. Thank God for Shanie. lol
OMG Shaunie is a true woman , Miles isn’t(shaq’s) her son but yest she’s raising him ..I like that ..Its probably best to keep him in that environment ..Good luck girl
btw doesn’t Shaq have twin boys ?
i think actually Miles is her son from her first marriage.
Miles is her son from a previous relationship.
Shaq also has a daughter, Tiara, who is the same
age as Miles.
She is gorgeous after dropping them chunky kids!
That child does not look three!
Nice picture. Shaunie looking fab. Cute kids. Best wishes to them all. I like to see Black people in the color white because the white plays up our beautiful skintones, as all colors do actually.
SHAUNIE’S PICS ARE PHOTOSHOPPED PEOPLE. I WAS THERE! SHE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE THAT SKINNY IMAGE THAT ESSENCE CREATED. Reliable sources all say Shaunie was married when she started pursuing Shaq. All in the club in LA playing “hoochie” while her infant son and her 1st husband was at home. She was also still married to her 1st husband when she became pregnant with she and Shaq’s 1st child. Now if that wasn’t aggressive (at 24 years old), I don’t know what is!
The bottom line is that Shaunie ushered in the masterplan. Trap a ball player to marry you by having baby after baby until he breaks down. When the player gets a vasectomy and you realize you can no longer “sweeten the pot” with adding more kids, then you bounce. Plus child and spousal support is a bigger number while the baller still has his $20 mil a year salary. She couldn’t afford to wait until he retired. I’m sure she has already set her sights on the next man. Poor them.
And his very public cheating with every [person] that walked his way had nothing to do with her bitterness or their split right? All Shaunie’s fault, ok, gotcha.
PlainMean I see where your coming from but the article is one sided. Shaq was wrong for cheating on his wife. That being said, if it’s true that her first husband was a friend of Shaq’s and she was still married when she got pregnant then you can’t pretend to be innocent. You know what they say Karma is a …..
@Sunshine… Definitely, karma, karma, karma. But I didn’t even know she was married before Shaq! Lol i’m bias, I like Shaunie.
Wait, I thought she cheated with the pool boy or trainer at one point??? I’m confused.
Beautiful family, those names have to go, jeez………
BCK I cant believe you allow some of these comments about Shaq’s kids. I made a comment about Lou Daniels daughter not looking 13 and it didnt get posted, yet you allow these ignorant comments about Shaq’s kids especially about his girlz. That’s sad.
Stop it! Stop trying to cause trouble where there is none. All the comments above are positive. The kids are huge as in tall. Uhhm, have you seen their dad? So obviously people are referring to their height and maybe even structure. Everyone on here agrees that they are all beautiful so stop trying to make BCK feel bad for nothing. Sheesh!
Lol hey, I made a comment about Lou Daniels’ daughter not looking 13 and mine wasn’t posted either! Lol i’m use to it.
Jimmy, you need to stop. T.M.I.
No matter what she still has her hands full raising 5 children WOW> But, nothing good comes out of infidelity. No one wins. Not even the one that feels they have achieved their goal. Now she and Shaq are divorced and the kids are from a broken home. My blessings go out to the children. Divorce is not easy on any family especially the children.
Well Jimmy if it went down like that than Shaq is the idiot that fell for it.
Wow, those kids look exactly like their momma. Who cares if she was married prior to them hooking up. We do not know how things were in their marriage. Regardless how you met, Shaq was aware of her circumstances and yet he chose to marry her, therefore he should have honored those vows. I am glad she moved on because he has all types of jumpoffs coming out the woodworks.
Just plain embarassing.
CUTE KIDS NICE FAM PIC.
she has to deal with five different personalities and if she is not intelligent enough to, the children’s personalities will be ignored. she seems to be smart enough to deal with each child in accordance and then love them all the same. oh, yeah, i read where shack was one of the hooker’s clients. that also could have contributed to their divorce. good day……