Coco Austin Reveals Racy Valentine's Day Photoshoot Pics
02/13/2020 01:06 pm EST
Austin was born in Austin was born in Tarzana, California in 1979, and raised in Palos Verdes, which is not far from her birth city.
Later in life, her family moved away from California, and settled in new Mexico.
She is the oldest of five, with one younger sister and three younger brothers.
Her real name is Nicole Natalie Marrow, but she got her nickname "Coco" as a child, due to one of her younger brothers mispronouncing her name.
At the age of 18, Austin began doing swimsuit and lingerie modeling, appearing in numerous calendars, catalogs and videos.
In 2001, she started working Playboy Mansion parties, after winning the 1998 Miss Ujena contest in Mexico.
In addition to her modeling work, Austin has also appeared in a handful of small films, such as Southwest Babes (2001), Desert Rose (2002), and The Dirty Monks (2004).
She has turned up in a number of TV projects as well, like Hip-Hop Wives, RuPaul's Drag Race 5, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Austin's Law & Order: SVU appearance — as well as her time on Hip-Hop Wives — is notable, due to the fact that she is married to rapper/actor Ice-T.
The couple married in 2002, and share one child together — a daughter named Chanel — who was born in 2015.
In 2011, Austin and Ice-T debuted their own reality TV series, Ice Loves Coco, which aired on the E! network.
The series ran for three seasons, eventually ending in February 2014.
These days, Austin splits her time between parenting and her modeling career, as well as being an ambassador for the
FashionNova brand.
She has also been keeping up appearance in other media projects, and turned up in rapper Lil' Kim's music video for "Go Awff," in 2019.
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