Who is Shaquille O’Neal Ex-Wife Shaunie O’Neal?

Shaunie O’Neal is a television personality, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who was born on November 27, 1974, in Wichita Falls, Texas.

She is one of the executive producers of VH-1’s reality TV shows Basketball Wives, Basketball Wives LA, and Baller Wives.

 

Shaunie O’Neal Career

Nelson is a co-executive producer on Basketball Wives, a reality show about the wives, ex-wives, and girlfriends of professional basketball players.

Basketball Wives LA is another reality television show that follows the wives, ex-wives, and girlfriends of professional basketball players in Los Angeles.

Shaunie’s Home Court, a reality show that covers the lives of her five children and family, is O’Neal’s third reality show.

Shaunie O’Neal Private Life

At the Beverly Hills Hotel on December 26, 2002, she married NBA player Shaquille O’Neal. After two years of dating, they were engaged, and two years later, they married.

The couple had four children before and during their marriage: Shareef (born in 2000), Amirah (born in 2001), Shaqir (born in 2003), and Me’arah (born in 2006).

Shaunie O’Neal has a son named Myles from a previous relationship, and Shaquille O’Neal has a daughter named Taahirah from a previous relationship with Arnetta Yardbourgh.

On September 4, 2007, Shaquille and Shaunie divorced after five years of marriage but reconnected soon after.

Shaunie filed for divorce on November 10, 2009, stating “irreconcilable differences” as the reason. In 2011, the divorce was finally formalized.

Shareef, their eldest son, is a talented basketball player who signed with UCLA in 2018 and eventually switched to LSU in 2020.