The wife of Ice T (59), Coco Austin (38), has caused quite a stir among Black people yet again on social media. Apparently, Coco -who is Caucasian- has been having some trouble understanding how to communicate her points on highly sensitive race related topics. For example, you may recall when she was dragged by many Black women, who accused her cultural appropriation, for alluding that her prior cornrow braided hairstyle was something she invented, as opposed to it being a creation from African culture.

Coco’s Statements That Offended Many Black Women

Well, now Coco is being obliterated online again, after the lengthy post she shared on Instagram, in which she stated that she’s the one who brought big butts to mainstream media. She first posted this message, alongside a photo of herself, from a past calendar photoshoot:

coco: “I would like to shed light to almost 21 years of modeling ..I don’t post much about it & new followers don’t even know I had a career in modeling they just see a wife,mother and someone that was on reality tv but just like every actor, singer, rapper, entertainer I’m proud of what I’ve done. I feel people should know it wasn’t easy..I helped pave the way for thick girls during the skinny genre (during the Kate Moss days what they call the waif era) to be noticed as beautiful..this was back before social media when magazines were popping, back before KimK, Nicki Minaj..( I mention them because young people see pop culture as the history makers but they need to know it started somewhere before them, this was also back before the plastic surgery craze. During my time it was pretty much Jlo that was making waves with the derriere phenomenon and Cindy Margolos was a popular bikini model and Buffie the Body was a popluar urban model and of course I need to give props to Anna Nicole Smith for also seeing this vision..To have booty it was considered to be fat in the modeling world.. But I helped changed the minds of what booty was. Today its a normal thing to see all different shapes and sizes, no one even thinks about it anymore. I helped history..I don’t want to toss it aside like it was nothing…I’d like to think some of my modeling was meaningful… After tons of calendars,DVD’s over 100 magazine covers and editorials I’m still standing..Thank you for all years of support .Power to the booty and strong healthy women!(This pic is from one of my motorcylce calendars)”

After receiving much backlash and cultural appropriation accusations, Coco then edited her Instagram caption, with an update to address the backlash:

coco: “Update to post!!! This was posted yesterday & ALL comments were positive until race was brought up today.Let me remind you 20 years ago there were not a lot of white girls w/ thick bodies in the modeling game.They didn’t consider my body type as the standard therefore It was harder to work in the industry.I was one of the 1st white models to break the mold & go mainstream with my body type and to let people know its OK to be curvy in the modeling world.Today curvy is the norm but when I first started out it wasn’t. Yesterday I felt I explained this thoroughly but I see some of you needed more details.”

Many React To Coco’s Claim

As you could imagine, there were people of many races -but in particular Black people- who pounced all over Coco’s ‘big booty’ claim. Many pointed out that there were many more African American women who were known for their voluptuous rear ends and thicker, curvy physiques long before Coco’s modeling career took off in the early 2000’s, after she married Ice T:

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Similar To The Last Time

This reminds me of the time Coco also had to come back to further try to explain her original point regarding her braided hairdo Instagram post, only to get further backlash afterwards:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BW3SJ-Rl4iV/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BW3Rx45lA8T/

Coco probably means well with her statements, in a somewhat naive way. However, if she finds that she has to keep backtracking to re-explain herself and/or clean up prior statements regarding highly sensitive race related topics, then I think she probably may want to re-assess what she’s doing to garner so much cultural appropriation backlash. Or better yet, maybe Ice T can jump in on the convo’ and school his wife on what and what not to say to avoid offending Black people with her statements.