Coco

There are a lot of things you don't know about Coco, the 28-year-old curvy wife of gangsta rapper-turned-primetime TV actor Ice-T. For one, the five-foot-two blonde beauty—who graced more than 30 magazine covers last year—handles all of Ice's business affairs out of her office on the set of his successful NBC show Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit. "I'm his assistant, I'm his scheduler, I'm on the phone, I'm on the computer, I'm making things happen for him," she says in her bubbly voice. "So he's on the set learning his lines, getting into character, while I'm doing the business side of it."

The power couple met on the set of Rhapsody in early 2000. "He's not cheery like me; I'm always a happy-go-lucky kind of girl and he's kind of grumpy," she says. A friend on the set was trying to cheer him up, and Coco was just the girl to do it. "Ice approached me and said, 'Hey, have you considered dating a gangsta rapper?' I didn't know what that was exactly," she says. "I responded, 'Well, if he's nice...' And he goes, 'Well, you take the n off nice and you get Ice, baby.' I thought it was pretty cute." Apparently. Ice and Coco exchanged their wedding vows in bed the same month they met, and have been inseparable ever since. Their secret? "You gotta start the day with 'I love you,' because that starts the day with a good attitude," she advises.

Playboy chatted with the effervescent star of her own website (www.cocosworld.com, myspace/cocosworld2006), Best of Coco 2008 Calendar and now Playboy magazine pictorial about how she keeps rap's original gangster happy in bed, her favorite sex positions and her ballyhooed butt.

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1. How do you spice up your sex life with Ice-T after all these years?

COCO: Since we're always with each other during the day, I'll be wearing my day clothes. But when we get home I'll change into some booty shorts and heels. I don't even have to do anything; I just want to change the vibe of how we're gettin' down.

2. What does Ice like you to wear?

COCO: He loves heels—it's gotta be some freak heels. I wear them in bed all the time. I actually keep a pair of shoes next to the bed, just in case I don't have them on and we start gettin' busy...I can throw them on. When I get a new pair of shoes I'm gonna have them right next to the bed, because that's the first place I'm gonna wear them. When he's laying in bed, I'll go into my closet and give him a fashion show. I'll show him four or five different outfits. It turns him on when I give him a fashion show. I'm not even dancing. Guys like the dance; he likes how I walk.

3. How do you stay in good physical shape to keep up such a healthy sex life?

COCO: That goes back to my competition that I won when I was 18—I entered my first fitness competition. I did bikini [competitions] but never fitness, and they told me I would never win. I just wanted to compete anyway; so I didn't care. I won it the first year; it was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. It kicked my ass. I told myself after I won I would never do it again, but I've always been into fitness and dance classes. I don't just do cardio for an hour, like what normal people do. I mostly do weights and only do cardio for 20 minutes. On top of that, I eat continuously. I have that thickness—that's now the "in" thing. I've never had that supermodel body type; I'm short, like 5'2". I'm never going to be that supermodel; I've already figured that out. I had to go with what I was born with.

4. What's your favorite sexual position?

COCO: I love doggy style. But he gets to see more of it, so I like mirrors. We have a wall of mirrors facing the bed. He's always got a better view; so sometimes he'll take pictures for me, so I can see it from his view. We get aroused by that stuff. I'm not the kind of person who gets turned on by other people; he's the same way, too. We like watching ourselves.

5. What's his favorite sexual position?

COCO: The same thing; he likes the view. The top of my butt—it's like a muscle with a layer of fat—I call it my butt cleavage. He loves that.