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Originally posted by stardusttwin
Where is this man's wife. Isn't she black?
She's very white and not that attractive either (meowwwww) !
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She's not white. I found an article on Mrs. Malone. She's Amerasian. Her dad is Caucasian, her mom is a native of the Phillipines.
Malone compares military life with NBA
by Steven R. Ford
Hilltop Times staff
As a former Air Force dependent, Kay Malone, wife of NBA superstar, Karl Malone, shared her experiences Monday with an assembled crowd at the Officers' Club to help kick off Military Spouse Appreciation Day.
Even as a NBA spouse, Malone was able relate to the Air Force spouses because her father was an Air Force enlistee, and he met
her mother, a native of the Philippines, while stationed at Clark Air Base.
Before graduating with a sociology degree from Boise State University, the statuesque beauty and former Miss Idaho attended Randolph High School while her father was stationed at Randolph AFB, Texas. She said she vividly remembers her high school's basketball victories over nearby Cole High School because they had a center by the name of
Shaquille O'Neal.
One of the things Malone remembers most about her Air Force life was the Rec Center. She and her friends would go there for dances and to hang out after school.
"It was just two blocks down the street, so my parents knew where we were all the time," Malone said. "They would have dances every weekend, and I was always looking forward to the dances. [My friends and I] just loved the Rec Center because they had all the activities. They kept us busy, and it was nice living on base and having all that."
As the daughter of an enlistee, Malone said she had always found Air Force pilots attractive. In fact, she had grown up wanting to marry a pilot, but instead, she had to settle for the greatest power forward in NBA history.
"My mind really was always set on marrying a fighter pilot. That would have been a thrill," Malone said. "Then I married Karl. I didn't know if I could cope with his life because it was so different.
"My father never stressed athletics. He stressed academics, so it was different. But they always say that people who are different seem to match, and we did, so we became best friends and got married."
Malone is now the mother of four young children, three girls and one boy, ranging from eight to nearly two and, even though her husband will be retiring soon, she says her life focused on her children and following in her own mother's footsteps.
"My main goal is really to be there for my children, like my mom was there for me," Malone said. "She never missed a game, never missed any modeling things I did. She was always there, and that's what I want to do for my children. Whatever my mom did, I think I can do for my children."
Malone saw a number of parallels between being a military spouse and being a NBA spouse. For one thing, she understood what it is like, both from her military background and her husband's road trips, when the military spouse is away. Spouses develop family routines and particular ways of doing things, she said, that become disrupted later when the spouse returns.
"I think the similarities are that the husbands or wives are away a lot, and you have to try to organize your household, trying to maintain a good way of life and also keeping yourself patient and in control for the children," Malone said. "I saw my mom go through it, and now I'm going through it with Karl. He's not on the road too much, but he's on the road enough that the kids miss him. I try to balance it for them, and that's what my mom tried to do, make sure we were happy and she was there for us."
She noted that player trades and free agency was similar to military PCS moves and deployments where it becomes difficult to form strong relationships with neighbors and co-workers.
Malone also said that having her spouse away for some periods gives her time to herself, time to focus on herself, her children and her other interests. An accomplished woman in her own right, she trains contestants for the Miss USA pageant, creates pottery and runs her own bed and breakfast, dubbed Wolfe Krest, in Salt Lake City's Capitol Hill area.
like why do you have my dead carcass on your wall 
Karl doesn't need the crib
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