Doting on her daughters! Vanessa Bryant has been gushing about her and Kobe Bryant’s ladies following his and their daughter Gianna’s tragic helicopter crash in January 2020.
The basketball legend died on the age of 41, alongside along with his 13-year-old, whereas touring to a Mamba Sports activities Academy sport in Thousand Oaks, California.
Vanessa shared a candy tribute to her late husband in February 2020 with a throwback picture of the NBA participant. “#mybestfriend #theBestdaddy Miss you a lot,” she wrote on the time. “#good-looking #candy #humorous #foolish #lovinghusband. Miss you saying, ‘Bonjourno principessa/reina.’”
The California native gave start to her and Kobe’s first daughter, Natalia, in 2003. The pair went on to welcome Gianna three years later, adopted by Bianka in 2016 and Capri in 2019.
Vanessa wished to have “a boy greater than” the Los Angeles Lakers participant, he advised Additional in March 2019. “I really like having ladies — I’m tremendous, tremendous enthusiastic about that,” Kobe mentioned on the time. “She is as properly. She wished a boy so he may be mama’s boy without end — that type of factor. We’ll see if I can ship, I don’t know. She’s like, ‘You go see for those who can hit a clutch shot. You gave me all ladies, let’s see for those who can convey a boy!’ Nope, not but. We’ll see.”
The Philadelphia native advised Jimmy Kimmel in October 2018 that Gianna wished to proceed his legacy on the basketball courtroom and had WNBA goals.
In October 2019, he gushed to The Los Angeles Instances about his athletic daughter’s “curiosity on the courtroom.” He mentioned that Gianna was “one thing else,” explaining, “Even in a heated scenario in a sport the place it’s going forwards and backwards, she will be able to detach herself and are available to me and ask a really particular query, which isn’t widespread. She’ll come over and say, ‘OK, on this explicit entice after I’m making an attempt to shut the hole however she’s getting on the skin, do I want to alter my angle?’ It’s a really particular query. That’s fairly rattling cool.”
The Mamba Mentality writer wed Vanessa in 2001. Maintain scrolling to see her sweetest motherhood moments following his demise, from household pictures to Gianna tributes.