
Shaquille O’Neal Reveals Surprising Beauty Treatment He Pays $1,000 For
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The former Los Angeles Laker also chronicled the origin of that self-care routine.
Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t mind getting dunked on for his costly self-care routine.
The former Los Angeles Laker recently confirmed on “The Big Podcast with Shaq” that he gets regular pedicures and loves having his toenails painted. O’Neal, who famously wears size 22 shoes, also revealed he pays a fortune for every session — because his feet “stink.”
“I give about $1,000 because I know my feet stink, I know they’re ugly and I like to paint them,” the 52-year-old NBA star explained on the podcast, adding: “I want it to look pretty. … That’s why I paint them.”
The four-time champion takes the topic of his feet in stride and even allowed his “NBA on TNT” colleagues to joke about them on air in 2017. While he denied getting pedicures at the time, O’Neal is now revealing the sweet origin of the tradition.
“One time I had a toenail that was torn off and I wasn’t going to play a game,” he said on the podcast. “And my mom was like, ‘Babe, why you not playing the game?’ I was like, ‘I tore my toenail off.’ So she did something, and then she put some red polish on the thing.”