Reality TV queen Shaunie Henderson dropped a few bombs in her memoir Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning On My Own Terms, which was released on Tuesday, May 5.
Most shocking is the fact that Henderson — who was once Shaunie “O’Neal” — admits that she was probably never in love with her ex-husband, basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, despite bearing five children with the NBA Hall of Famer.
“Looking back, I don’t know that I was ever really in love with the man, but I was in love with the idea of being married to the man I had a family with,” she penned in the book, according to Essence magazine. Henderson adds that she was more in love with the concept of being in love.
“I was in love with the idea” of her and O’Neal “building a life together.” “I truly did enjoy spending time with him,” Henderson penned. “[NBA] road trips allowed me to be with my husband and experience the NBA life for a little while.”
Henderson said Shaq was immersed in the NBA life while simultaneously trying to be a husband and father to their children, a chore that proved impossible for the 7-foot-1 goliath.
“He was trying to be a world-famous, thirty-something multimillionaire with thousands of women throwing themselves at him, and people in general begging just to be in his presence, while being a husband and a father simultaneously,” she reportedly wrote. “How could anyone possibly know how to do that?”
Fans registered mostly shock at Shaunie’s revelation
Many fans found Henderson’s revelation startling and curious.
“So just a few kids with a man you didn’t love… that’s crazy” an Instagram user said, while a second person shared, “So maybe she is saying this because she is finally experiencing how to be properly loved!!”
A third person wrote that “She is saying that now that she’s remarried, she found a different version of herself and a different take/view on love. What she thought was love with Shaq, isn’t the same as what’s she’s experiencing now…” A fourth IG user was unsympathetic to Henderson, saying, “That says more about her than him.”
Other fans were incredulous, saying that it “Sounds like she loved the idea of being a NBA player’s wife, the lifestyle and the money,” while another person was bewildered by Henderson’s words, penning “… you had 5-6 kids with him though?!?!”
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She is a Gold Digger and had children to secure the Benefits Shag is a Real Man he probably was not Faithful but took Care of his Family.
Totally agree 👍 with you. She was securing a BAG 🎒
No woman is going to have THAT MANY kids with a high quality man who she doesn’t really love unless she has/had another agenda
($$$$$$$$🤑🤑🤑🤑)
She might be jealous because he’s doing better without her in his life. And he has someone else in his life now, and he looks happier
How can you have 5 children with someone you’re not in love with? Sounds like you were just enjoying the luxury life.
God bles bother of you cause when it all said and do God got the say so on them both they both are wrong in God eyes period point blank the end.
A woman speaking her truth !!! People love to judge like they are perfect !!!! She is reflecting on her personal experience!!!! I get it starting out young wanting to build a life is new as you mature you see things differently’ !!! Thank God she is working on herself now!!!! “He is areal man he may have cheated but took care of his kids “ really !!!! Wow I have no words !!!! Vows have a clause? Do whatever just throw money to the kids? What? So a man gets a cookie for giving money yet a woman is persecuted for self reflection ? Please make it make sense!!!!
A man can cheat however still love his wife and his wife can not make him happy because he intention wasn’t to be a wife but a good digger. If she never loved him then she violated the vows because her intentions were false from the beginning so in my eyes he didn’t cheat the marriage was never established.
She was just in it for the money. Bc she cheated to.
It’s over Sit down and shut the door. Life has moved away for the good. It is what it is rest people arest