<p id=”par-1_56″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/rappers/”>Rapper</a> Eve has been married to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/who-eve-husband-maximillion-cooper-what-his-net-worth.html/”>entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper</a> since 2014, and they’re still going strong. But Eve had to weather a strong storm when she first began dating Cooper because of her relationship’s interracial makeup. However, the Ruff Ryders artist was sometimes just as confused as her audience was about her and her partner’s love.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-eve-once-shared-what-she-really-thought-about-dating-maximillion-cooper”>Eve once shared what she really thought about dating Maximillion Cooper</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_78″>Cooper couldn’t have been anymore different from Eve’s previous boyfriends. Before Cooper, perhaps one of Eve’s most well-known lovers <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-eve-stevie-j-broke-up.html/”>was hip hop producer Stevie J</a>. She’s also reportedly been in relationships with T.I. and Nelly. The only thing Cooper seemed to have in common with Eve’s exes is being smitten by the “Who’s That Girl?” singer. It was a question Cooper might’ve asked himself when he first saw her at an event he was hosting in 2010. </p>
<p id=”par-3_17″>Although he was familiar with Eve’s work, the multimillionaire had never seen her in person before then.</p>
<p id=”par-4_55″>“We met on the red carpet at the big party I was hosting in London for the Gumball,” Cooper once told <em><a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmUyMRqZTAI&ab_channel=TheTalk”>The Talk</a></em>. “I’d heard her music before, but that night she actually was performing and I remember introducing her and just watching her, being mesmerized and I’ve pretty much been mesmerized ever since, really.”</p>
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<p id=”par-5_72″>Cooper couldn’t get Eve out of her head afterwards, and passionately pursued her. The two would reveal themselves as a couple in late 2010, then would marry four years later in 2014. But a lot of Eve’s fans couldn’t look past the interracial aspect of their relationship. In a resurfaced interview with <em>Hot 97 </em>(via <a href=”https://rollingout.com/2012/11/30/eve-opens-up-about-her-interracial-relationship/”>Rolling Out</a>), she couldn’t help but respond to the criticism she faced dating outside of her race.</p>
<p id=”par-6_18″>“I need them to stop [caring about interracial dating]. What year is it? Like, stop. Seriously,” she said.</p>
<p id=”par-7_20″>But at the same time, Eve confided that she sympathized and even shared some of her critics’ reaction to Cooper.</p>
<p id=”par-8_106″>“Trust me, I gotta say, it is weird for me that I’m with a white dude. Trust me. I look at him sometimes and I’m like, ‘You are so white.’ Seriously! Yes, I gotta be real like that,” she continued. “I’m the first black girl he’s ever been with, so we are learning. Trust me, he’s been through ‘Weave 101…we learn a lot about each other. But people came at me like, ‘I can’t believe you’re dating a white dude and you don’t like black dudes no more.’ I’m like, ‘I love black men, it just so happens that my heart went this way right now.’”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-eve-had-to-overcome-a-lot-of-baggage-before-being-in-a-healthy-relationship-with-maximillion-cooper”>Eve had to overcome a lot of baggage before being in a healthy relationship with Maximillion Cooper</h2>
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<p id=”par-9_76″>Nowadays, Eve has entered <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/45-years-old-eve-radiates-family-era-rapper-releases-autobiography.html/”>her family era with Cooper</a> after<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/eve-expecting-first-child-after-infertility.html/”> giving birth to her first child</a> back in 2021. But it took some time before the couple built their relationship into what it is today. Since Cooper and Eve lived worlds apart from each other, she had to get used to the distance between them. On the <em><a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbRaLM2iYGY&ab_channel=DanielleRobay”>Pretty Smart </a></em>podcast, the “Love Is Blind” singer revealed how her faith in Cooper was tested during that period.</p>
<p id=”par-10_58″>“The first few years of our relationship, definitely baggage was there,” she said. “We were long-distance for a year. There’d be times where I’d freak out. Like he’d be in London, I’d be in L.A., the time difference is nuts – if he didn’t answer the phone I’d immediately be like ‘Who are you with? What’s going on?’”</p>
<p id=”par-11_8″>But Cooper eventually managed to win her over.</p>
<p id=”par-12_40″>“He’d be like ‘I am not that person, I’m not gonna lie,’” she said. “It took me a few years before I could be like ‘Oh no, I believe him and yes this is such a different situation.’ Thank God.”</p>
<p id=”par-13_14″>Eve confided that Quarantining themselves during the pandemic also helped draw the two closer.</p>
<p id=”par-14_111″>“I have to say, I feel lucky that we’re one of the couples that got out of the quarantine and was like, ‘I still like you <em>and</em> love you’ — that’s a different thing. Because love is one thing, but you still gotta like the person,” she said in an interview with <a href=”https://people.com/music/eve-marriage-husband-in-quarantine-exclusive/”>People</a>. “We’ve learned a lot of new things about each other. This is gonna sound so cheesy — and I swear I apologize because I’m not a romantic — but it has solidified why I fell in love with him. It brought us closer together, and it made me realize wow, we chose each other, and this is a great choice.”</p>