{"id":291110,"date":"2020-04-18T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1142316"},"modified":"2020-04-18T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:49:46","slug":"vanessa-bryant-shares-special-tribute-to-kobe-on-what-wouldve-been-their-19th-wedding-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/vanessa-bryant-shares-special-tribute-to-kobe-on-what-wouldve-been-their-19th-wedding-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Bryant Shares Special Tribute to Kobe on What Would&#8217;ve Been Their 19th Wedding Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020114\/rs_600x600-200214142436-600-Vanessa-Kobe.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.994388327722\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.578002244669\">\n<p>A love like no other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vanessa Bryant<\/strong> is remembering her &#8220;king&#8221; and her one true love, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kobe_bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong>. On Saturday, the 37-year-old star took to Instagram to share a heartwarming message about late Lakers icon.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, she reminded everyone that today holds a special place in her heart\u2014because they would&#8217;ve celebrated almost two decades of marriage together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My king, my heart, my best friend. Happy 19th wedding anniversary baby,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_ITucyDzf2\/?igshid=1wjmq52xplzjs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vanessa shared on Instagram<\/a>, alongside a photo of her and the basketball legend. &#8220;I miss you so much. I wish you were here to hold me in your arms. I love you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this marks the first year Vanessa celebrates her wedding anniversary without her husband.<\/p>\n<p>As fans of the couple will remember, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1115927\/kobe-bryant-dead-at-41-look-back-at-his-family-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kobe passed away in a tragic helicopter crash<\/a> in mid-January. Additionally, the pair&#8217;s daughter <strong>Gianna &#8220;Gigi&#8221; Maria-Onore Bryant<\/strong> and seven others died in the aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>That wasn&#8217;t the only tribute Vanessa shared on her wedding anniversary. She also uploaded a throwback video of Kobe&nbsp;being interviewed by MTV in 2001, which was also the same year they tied the knot.<\/p>\n<p>In the short clip, the late Lakers star can be heard gushing over his wife.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.289592760181\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.022624434389\">\n<p>&#8220;You know, it&#8217;s hard to pinpoint what exactly makes a person the one for you, but you just know&#8230; I mean, love is a funny thing, I can&#8217;t explain it and I don&#8217;t understand it but all I know is she caught my heart,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_IS2_XD3sN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said of his leading lady<\/a>. &#8220;And I just knew she was the one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also shared his plans on having a big family with Vanessa, which is exactly what they did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the future, I see us as being two cool-ass parents,&#8221; he expressed with a huge smile on his face. &#8220;Young parents, full of energy. She has a ton of energy and I have a ton of energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During their relationship, they would become parents to four daughters\u2014<strong>Natalia<\/strong>, <strong>Gianna<\/strong>, <strong>Bianka<\/strong> and <strong>Capri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>&#8220;My LOVE,&#8221; Vanessa captioned the video. &#8220;My HEART.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1142316\/vanessa-bryant-shares-special-tribute-to-kobe-on-what-would-ve-been-their-19th-wedding-anniversary?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A love like no other. Vanessa Bryant is remembering her &#8220;king&#8221; and her one true love, Kobe Bryant. On Saturday, the 37-year-old star took to Instagram to share a heartwarming message about late Lakers icon. In fact, she reminded everyone that today holds a special place in her heart\u2014because they would&#8217;ve celebrated almost two decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-22 18:35:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}