On December 26, 2002, she married basketball player Shaquille O’Neal at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The two got engaged after dating for two years and married two years later. Before and during their marriage, the pair had four children: Shareef (b. 2000), Amirah (b. 2001), Shaqir (b. 2003), and Me’arah (b. 2006). She has a son, Myles, from a previous relationship, while Shaq has a daughter, Taahirah, with his former girlfriend Arnetta Yardbourgh.
Shaq and Shaunie separated after five years of marriage on September 4, 2007, but reconciled shortly after. On November 10, 2009, she filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”. Their divorce was finalized in 2011. The couple’s oldest son, Shareef, is a standout basketball player, who committed to UCLA in 2018, and later transferred to LSU in 2020.
