Vanessa Bryant shares an emotional Christmas portrait of her late husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gigi: “Always together, never apart”
Vanessa Bryant has shared an emotional Christmas retreat with her late husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna Bryant, who tragically died in a helicopter crash earlier this year on January 26 in California.
Vanessa, 38, wrote, “Always together, never set aside forever in the heart,” along with a plethora of heart emojis, which would have been her last Christmas together as a family.
The black-and-white family portrait also included daughters Natalia, 17, Bianka and Capri, one, posing next to the Christmas trees.
Vanessa Bryant shares an emotional Christmas portrait of her late husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gigi: “Always Together, Never Separated”
The two were active on social media before their passing, and the basketball star called Vanessa his “queen” and his daughters’ “princesses” in an emotional Instagram post to commemorate the 20th anniversary. met for the first time when he was in high school. weeks before his death.
He wrote: “That day 20 years ago I met my best friend, my queen @vanessabryant. I decided to take her tonight to Disneyland to celebrate the old school style (before the 4 princesses).
‘I love you my mamacita forever.’
Remember: the black and white family portrait also included daughters Natalia, Bianka and Capri
Kobe adored his family and, in a previous post after retiring in 2016, wrote, “I’m very excited to see what God has in store for us as a family now that a chapter closes and new ones open.” .
He met Vanessa in 1999 when she was 17 and working as a background model on a music video and they got engaged six months later and got married in 2001.
Kobe was 21 and had played three seasons in the NBA.
There was a huge media frenzy surrounding their relationship in the early days with a television helicopter flying over the Vanessa High School campus trying to imagine them together.
The couple appears here with their eldest daughter, Natalia (right) and Gianna (front) at Nickelodeon’s Kids ’Choice Sports Awards 2016 in Los Angeles
The intense attention for her relationship forced her to miss her high school dance.
Kobe’s family is said to have refused to attend their discreet wedding because they reportedly worried he was too young to marry and were worried that there would be no prior arrangement for the wedding.
In 2003, the year her daughter Natalia was born, Kobe was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old boy in a Colorado hotel. The charges of rape were later dropped after he claimed he was consensual and Vanessa appeared next to him at a press conference where he admitted to cheating on her.
The weeping star said to his wife, “You are my backbone. You are a blessing. You are a piece of my heart. You are the air I breathe.
KOBE Bryant published a poignant tribute to his wife Vanessa a few weeks before the tragic crash of a helicopter in which he died next to his daughter
He added, “And you’re the strongest person I know, and I’m sorry to have put that into practice for you and to have it passed on to our family.”
The plaintiff later dropped all charges.
The couple suffered a heart attack in 2005, when Vanessa suffered a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy. He later blamed himself for the stress he had suffered.
Speaking on the Showtime documentary, Kobe Bryant’s Muse said, “We should build our family. But because of my mistake, because of this hard year, we lost a baby.”
The couple had their second daughter Gianna in 2006.
Kobe and Vanessa at the 90th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood in 2018
But in 2011 their relationship was back on the rocks and Vanessa filed for divorce alleging “irreconcilable differences” and it was set to get half of Kobe’s $ 150 million fortune in the deal.
But two years later they said the divorce was out and in 2016 they had their third daughter Bianca.
Kobe and Gianna, an intense basketball player, had gone to Mamba Academy to play basketball when the helicopter crashed around ten in the morning.
The other seven people on board also died.
The pilot, locally named Ara Zobayan, was trying to turn the plane when it crashed into the hills of Las Virgenes Canyon, which is home to celebrities, including the Kardashians.
Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Kerry and daughter Alyssa were also among the dead.