| Intro | American reality show participant, model, spokesmodel. | ||
| Is | Model | ||
| From | United States of America | ||
| Type | Fashion | ||
| Gender | female | ||
| Birth | 10 December 1975, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.A. | ||
| Age: | 44 years | ||
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Evelyn Lozada is an American television personality. She was one of the five main cast members in the VH1 reality series Basketball Wives throughout its run. She is set to return to the cast of the sixth season of the series.
Early life
Lozada was born and raised in the Bronx. She is of Puerto Rican ancestry and was raised by her mother. She moved to Miami in 2007. She worked as a secretary to an entertainment attorney, and later became co-owner of Dulce, a shoe boutique located in Coral Gables, Florida.
Career
Lozada starred in Basketball Wives, a reality series that follows the wives, ex-wives, and girlfriends of professional basketball players. Another reality television show, Ev and Ocho, which had been planned to follow the lives of her and former husband Chad Johnson, never aired. She is the center of a third reality television series, Livin’ Lozada, with Shaniece Hairston, her grown daughter from another relationship.
Lozada and her brand strategist, Courtney Parker, wrote the 2012 novel The Wives Association: Inner Circle. Released by Cash Money Content books, the novel follows a young woman who marries a football star and then forms a group of other sports wives – The Wives Association.
In September 2012, Lozada appeared on the television show Iyanla: Fix My Life where she discussed her personal life and sought emotional healing with Iyanla Vanzant. In December 2012, she posed for PETA’s “I’d Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur” campaign.
Personal life
Lozada was engaged to NBA star Antoine Walker with whom she had a ten-year relationship.
On November 16, 2010, Chad Johnson (whose name was Chad Ochocinco at that time) proposed to Lozada, they had been dating since earlier in the year. On July 4, 2012, she married Johnson in Saint Martin. On August 11, 2012, Johnson was arrested on a charge of domestic battery according to the Davie, Florida police. On August 14, 2012, Lozada filed for divorce claiming that her marriage was “irretrievably broken” and the divorce was finalized on September 19, 2012. On September 21, 2012, Johnson entered a plea of no contest to misdemeanor domestic battery, avoiding jail time in an agreement with prosecutors and Lozada. Johnson received a year of probation.
Lozada began dating Carl Crawford in 2013. In December 2013, Lozada and Crawford announced their engagement. She gave birth to their son in 2014.