Keeping Up With The East Atlanta Santa

ATLANTA, GA -- If you've been keeping up with entertainment, you know that Atlanta, East Atlanta, specifically, has its own Brad and Angelina. Only this couple features a successful entrepreneur, Keyshia Ka’oir, and famous rapper Gucci Mane, known in these parts as "East Atlanta Santa."

Ka' oir sells multiple products under her beauty line, including the Ka'oir Waist Eraser, which she credits for helping her slim down while maintaining her curves.

While Ka’oir's business saavy is considerable, she's been getting major props for maintaining the clean-living which has allowed Gucci Mane to stay svelte after losing 50 pounds in prison.

Jailed on a parole violation, Gucci Mane -- real name Radric Davis -- was supposed to serve 39 months, with a release date of March 2017. But he shocked fans last year when the much-thinner rapper debuted in Snapchat videos at his mansion he shares with Ka'oir.

Speaking to The Fader magazine, Ka'oir said that his social media debut was strategic, and everything happened the way she planned.

"When we got to Atlanta, we got off the plane on the runway and we had a private service that took us to our home. Then when we got home, that’s when I started posting on Snapchat. That was all my plan," she was quoted as saying.

She said that while he was locked up, the couple dieted together and communicated electronically or by phone. She put him on a strict workout regimen and no-carb diet.

"There were days that he would cheat, and then I’m like, You can’t cheat: you’re not like that! That way you wasted our whole workout and our eating together for three years," she told Fader. "We want to lose the weight, we want to focus, we want to be sober, we want to be more business-minded. Your brand means a lot, your fans mean everything to you. You have to do great music, you’re a parent. He no longer wanted to have the gold in his mouth, and I didn’t either. That was a decision we made together. He came home and we took them out."

She told Fader that happiness in their life has come from being organized, something that she has instilled in him.

"These days I often tell him, 'We have to be on a schedule.' We don’t just lay in bed all morning until 12 or 1 o’clock. We get up for work in the morning at 9. We have business calls, we have emails, and we’re ready and alert. We work during the day, and at night we eat our dinner. Then we take a shower and we lay down. We have a normal life. Staying in the studio until 6 or 7 in the morning with everybody smoking and drinking, we don’t do that stuff. Because that becomes trouble. This is how we keep everything together: we stay focused."

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