Coco Austin and Ice-T recently marked their daughter Chanel’s eighth birthday with a Hello Kitty-themed celebration. The couple spared no effort to ensure that Chanel’s wish for a party was granted.
As Chanel continues to grow, so do the challenges of parenting in the digital age. Coco revealed that her 8-year-old has already begun exploring the online world.
“She just said this week, ‘I Google you guys,'” Coco shared with Eonline in a recent interview. “She’s like, ‘I Google myself, too.'”
While Coco had hoped to delay the inevitable discussion about the internet until Chanel was older, she now sees the need due to the potential misinformation her daughter could encounter online.
“You have to have that moment of not everything is the truth on the internet,” she explained, “and that talk has to come now because she’ll read something on the internet, really believe it and get her feelings hurt.”
Chanel is already aware of her mother’s history as a voluptuous lingerie model. Coco added, “So she kind of knows who i am. She knows daddy is definitely a gangster.”
Coco’s protective instincts extend beyond the digital realm. The model faced an earlier instance of bullying when Chanel was in kindergarten.
“We had one bully conversation and it was actually in kindergarten,” Coco—who shares Chanel with husband Ice-T—told E! News’ Francesca Amiker in an exclusive interview. “This little girl was bullying her, and she used to come home and say, ‘Mommy, I don’t like this girl. She’s mean to me.'”
Initially dismissing it as typical behavior among 5-year-olds, Coco changed her perspective when she met the alleged bully and her parent at a school function.
“When I saw this parent,” the 44-year-old continued, “I killed her with kindness. And her whole opinion changed of me, and she probably had a conversation with her daughter [because] Chanel didn’t have a problem the rest of the year.”
