Mike Tyson Opens Up on Wife Lakiha Spicer’s Transformation- 'She’s in Great Shape'

Spicer is a businesswoman who owns a clothing store and co-wrote the 2012 TV show The Undisputed Truth, which was based on her husband’s life. The show won two awards and helped improve Tyson’s public image by showing a different side of him.

Tyson has cited Spicer as a crucial presence in his life, who has stuck with him through his personal and professional struggles. The couple shared an 11-year age gap and first met when she was 18 and he was 29. Promoter Don King introduced the two, and despite being warned, Lakiha grew closer to Tyson.

They started dating when she was 22, and were in an on-again, off-again relationship throughout the 90s. The two finally tied the knot in an intimate ceremony on June 9, 2009. Lakiha Spicer became Tyson’s third wife. Tyson and Spicer share two children, a daughter, Milan, and a son, Morocco.

Mike Tyson opened up about his struggles with weight

In the same podcast, the three-time world champion opened up about his early struggles with weight and how badly it affected him and his family. He even shared how his sister, whom he referred to as his ‘best friend,’ died from obesity.

“She was my sister, my best friend, but she never she didn’t have a lifestyle. She didn’t know about processed food cuz that’s all we ate. It was processed food. Cuz we didn’t have no money to buy food. We’re the kind of family that knock on the neighbor’s door, ‘You have any food?’ Crazy.”

Things changed for Iron Mike only after meeting his manager, Constantine “Cus” D’Amato, who helped him develop a proper lifestyle and a relationship with food. D’Amato took Tyson under his wing and trained him to become a heavyweight boxing star.