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You may have seen Marlon Yates on a few episodes of Basketball Wives, as boy toy to ex-baller wife Shaunie O’Neal. The 23-year-old born and bread Los Angeles native started off with NFL aspirations, and instead has been making a name for himself in the modeling world after appearing on Janice Dickinson Modeling Show. He recently sat down with Edge Magazine and talked a bit about his current relationship with Shaq‘s ex-wife, how being with her has changed how he acts, as well as why the young girls out there just don’t do it for him.
On What He Likes Most About Shaunie
She’s a hustla. She’s a mother, the way she looks at her kids. She’s a businesswoman. That’s what I’m saying, she’s a hustla. Sometimes I look at her like Oprah. “You can be Oprah one day”; I tell her that all the time.
On How His Life Has Changed Since Dating Shaunie
Drastically. I’m scared to even talk to people on the phone. Scared to text message an old friend. Facebook. Some neighborhoods I used to go to. People think “oh, he’s with her, he probably got at least a million”. I think about it, dudes are always plotting. Being with her I have to represent myself differently. So I can’t hang out with my boys in the hood and do dumb s***. I’m a different man. But I’ve always been like that even before her but now it’s really like that.
When asked what people are most surprised about in their relationship, his answer wasn’t very “surprising.”
That I’m younger and she’s older. It’s a huge surprise because of the age gap. From who she used to deal with to who she’s dealing with now. I wake up sometimes like “damn, she chose me?” because y’all are always choosing …she chose me so there’s something about the boy.
On What He Thinks About Basketball Wives
I think the show is very entertaining. I watch it. I watch it by myself sometimes I was with her when she filmed it, I give her my two cents, “dead that situation, you don’t want to look crazy” or sometimes I get the alcohol in my system and it’s like “f*** it, slap her a** if you got to” but the sober mind is like “don’t do that”.
