Evelyn Alexandra Lozada is an American television personality, model and spokesperson. Lozada was one of the five main cast members in the VH1 reality series Basketball Wives throughout its run. Lozada is set to return to the cast of the sixth season of the series.

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. Lozada is the center of a third reality television series, Livin' Lozada, with Shaniece Hairston (b. June 16, 1993), 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.



Lozada was engaged to NBA star Antoine Walker with whom she had a ten-year relationship with from 1998 until 2008. 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. In August 2017, the couple called off the engagement.

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