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Par Joël Pütz | Journaliste sportif
For most of his career, Shaquille O’Neal has often been criticized for his questionable lifestyle. But there’s one part of his body that the center takes very seriously, to the point of spending thousands of dollars each year to take care of it.
Shaquille’s career can be viewed from two perspectives. The first is that the center dominated physically like no other in basketball history, despite being undisciplined outside of games, especially during the offseason. The second is that he might have been even better if he had been more serious in his approach.
We’ll never know what would have happened, but it’s clear that Big Diesel’s work ethic was a source of tension between him and Kobe Bryant when they were teammates on the Lakers. However, things have changed since then, as he’s been paying attention to what he eats, having been retired for 15 years. This doesn’t stop him from still weighing nearly 150 kilos. A true monster…
While Shaq does take care of his body, some of his treatments are purely out of vanity. We’re thinking, in particular, of… his toenails, as the four-time NBA champion recently admitted on his podcast that he’s been painting them for a very long time. As for why, the former Lakers colossus offered an answer that only he knows the secret to:
Shaquille O’Neal very honest about his Pedicures
I give about $1,000 because I know my feet stink. I know they’re ugly and I like to paint them. All that’s stuff going on, I paint it ’cause I want it to look pretty. That’s why I paint my nails. I do like sparkles and designs and all that. Just to make it look pretty because I have ugly and stinky feet.
In fact, it all started after a match in which he accidentally tore off a toenail, leading him to stop playing:
My mom was like, “Babe, why you not playing again?” I told her it was torn off, so she did something, and then she put like some red polish on the thing, and I had 40 that game. So that’s why I paint my toenails. All that stuff that other people have going on, don’t put that on me
The Big Cactus does not hesitate to show himself in the middle of a pedicure session, on occasion:
