Vanessa Bryant shares the emotional Christmas family portrait with late husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gigi: “Always together, never apart”
Vanessa Bryant shared an emotional Christmas return 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 alongside a lot of heart emojis – which would have been their last Christmas together as a family.
The black and white family portrait also included 17-year-old daughters Natalia, Bianka and Capri, who are posing next to Christmas trees.
Vanessa Bryant shares the emotional Christmas family portrait with late husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gigi: “Always together, never separated”
The two were both active on social media before her passing, and the basketball star called Vanessa “Regina” and their daughters’ “princesses” in an emotional Instagram post to mark her 20th birthday. they first met when he was in high school a few weeks before his death.
He wrote: “On this day, 20 years ago, I met my best friend, my queen @vanessabryant. I decided to take her to a meeting at Disneyland tonight to celebrate the old school style (pre 4princese).
“I love you forever, my mother.”
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, he wrote: “I am so excited to see what God has in store for us as a family now that one 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 years old and had played three seasons in the NBA.
In the early days, there was a huge media frenzy around their relationship with a television helicopter that once flew over the Vanessa High School campus, trying to imagine them together.
The couple is pictured here with their eldest daughter, Natalia (right) and Gianna (front) at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Sports Awards 2016 in Los Angeles
Intense attention to their relationship forced her to miss her high school ball.
It is said that Kobe’s family refused to attend their discreet wedding because they apparently were worried that he was too young to get married and were worried that there was no pre-nuptial agreement.
In 2003, the year their daughter Natalia was born, Kobe was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old man in a Colorado hotel. The rape allegations were later dropped after he claimed to be consensual, and Vanessa appeared with him at a news 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 posted an emotional tribute to his wife Vanessa just weeks before the tragic helicopter crash in which he died with his daughter
He added: “You are also the strongest person I know and I am very sorry that I have to obey you and that our family has to go through this.”
Subsequently, the accuser dropped all charges.
The couple suffered a heart attack in 2005, when Vanessa had a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy. He later blamed himself for the stress he went through.
Speaking on the Showtime documentary, Kobe Bryant’s Muse said: “We should build our family. But because of my mistake, because of this tough year, I lost a child.
The couple had their second daughter Gianna in 2006.
Kobe and Vanessa at the 90th annual Hollywood Oscars in 2018
But in 2011, their relationship was back on the market and Vanessa filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences” and was to get half of Kobe’s $ 150 million fortune.
But two years later, they said the divorce was annulled and in 2016 they had their third daughter, Bianca.
Kobe and Gianna, a basketball player in love, were on their way to Mamba Academy for basketball training when the helicopter crashed around 10 o’clock in the morning.
The other seven people on board were also killed.
The pilot – locally named Ara Zobayan – was trying to turn the aircraft around when he smashed the hills of Las Virgenes Canyon, which hosts celebrities, including the Kardashians.
Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Kerry and their daughter Alyssa were also among the dead.