Evelyn Lozada

You may have forgotten who Evelyn Lozada is, but to refresh your memory, she’s an American reality television star, model, and spokesperson who is most widely recognized for her appearance as one of the main cast members in the VH1 reality series Basketball Wives. She is the former fiancee of retired professional basketball player Antoine Walker. In recent years, Lozada has published three novels and is set to release her new one entitled The Wrong Mr. Darcy.

Lozada began her career as a secretary to an entertainment attorney and later became a co-owner of a shoe boutique in Coral Gables, Florida. Before her involvement with NBA star Antoine Walker and prior to achieving stardom in the reality show, she had a relationship with Jamal Hairston. Both she and Hairston welcomed their daughter in 1993, and she was only 18 at the time.