Little is known about Ice Spice’s parents, Charina Almanzar and Joseph Gaston. But, in July 2022, the “Barbie World” rapper opened up a bit about her childhood and her parents’ love story to Audiomack. Almanzar and Gaston took a Big Mac and a side of romance the first time they met. Ice Spice revealed her parents met at a McDonald’s in the Bronx; her mom was seventeen at the time. It’s unclear what year they met, but in 2000, they welcomed the young rapper.
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Almanzar and Gaston called it quits two years after they gave birth to Ice Spice. The reason for the split is still unknown, but it seems the two remained amicable. During an interview with Apple Music, the “Princess Diana” rapper revealed her mom and dad lived on the same block following their split. She shared, “Fordham and Davidson, where I grew up, both sides of my family — my mom and my dad — are from Davidson specifically like me, my dad, and my grandma on that side…and then my abuela and my mom was down the block but on the same block which is mad funny.” After her parents split, Ice Spice would go back and forth from her mom’s home to her dad’s, according to The Cut. While the rapper hasn’t revealed much about her parent’s personal life, it seems she is still close to them from the details she has shared.
