{"id":292181,"date":"2020-05-10T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T01:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1150348"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T01:43:17","slug":"vanessa-bryant-celebrates-mothers-day-with-heartwarming-presents-from-her-daughter-natalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/vanessa-bryant-celebrates-mothers-day-with-heartwarming-presents-from-her-daughter-natalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Bryant Celebrates Mother&#8217;s Day With Heartwarming Presents From Her Daughter Natalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.264949402024\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"29.994480220791\">\n<p>Following the tragic loss of her daughter&nbsp;<strong>Gianna Bryant<\/strong>&nbsp;and her husband&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kobe_bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Vanessa Bryant<\/strong>&nbsp;continues to be surrounded by a strong support system and continues to be showered with love.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Mother&#8217;s Day, the 38-year-old shared the many thoughtful gifts she received from couple&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gabrielle_union\">Gabrielle Union<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Dwayne Wade<\/strong>, singer&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ciara\">Ciara<\/a><\/strong>, TV personality&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/la_la_anthony\">La La Anthony<\/a><\/strong>, basketball player&nbsp;<strong>Julius Randle<\/strong> and&nbsp;co-founder of Lil&#8217; Libros <strong>Patty Rodriguez<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the best gifts of all came from her&nbsp;daughter&nbsp;<strong>Natalia Bryant<\/strong> and&nbsp;Natalia&#8217;s baby&nbsp;sisters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa shared to her Instagram Story that her daughter&#8217;s had gifted her a book titled,&nbsp;<em>Why I Love My Mom<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love you so much @nataliabryant, Gianna, Bianka and Capri!&#8221; she wrote alongside a picture of the book. &#8220;Thank you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa&#8217;s eldest daughter Natalia also took to her Instagram to share a collage of pics with her mom. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CABJoiKAoAc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She captioned her post<\/a>, &#8220;Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CABfXQVDlR7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a separate post, Vanessa wrote<\/a>: &#8220;I love being your mama @nataliabryant , Gianna, Bianka and Capri. #MyWorld You are all the very best of mommy and daddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Aside from the thoughtful gifts her daughters gifted her, Ciara also gifted Vanessa a necklace with her daughter&#8217;s initials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Koko&#8221; for Capri, &#8220;BB&#8221; for Bianka, &#8220;Gigi&#8221; for Gianna and &#8220;Nani&#8221; for Natalia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46.777701307639\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020410\/rs_634x1024-200510181850-634-Vanessa_Bryant_MP_5.10.20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Mothers's Day Pictures, Vanessa Bryant, Instagram\" alt=\"Mothers's Day Pictures, Vanessa Bryant, Instagram\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"35.076923076923\">\n<p>&#8220;I [heart emoji] u. Thank you @ciara,&#8221; wrote Vanessa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She also shared the different flower bouquets she received from La La and other good friends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the first Mother&#8217;s Day since the death of her daughter Gianna and the late Lakers legend back in January of this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Vanessa also celebrated her birthday with an unexpected letter from her late husband.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday I found an envelope labeled To: The Love of my Life. From, Tu Papi. I waited to open one more letter on my birthday. It gave me something to look forward to today,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1148455\/vanessa-bryant-uncovering-letter-from-kobe-bryant-may-just-be-the-best-birthday-gift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she shared<\/a>. &#8220;The irony is that Kobe had a photo of me drawn with an Angel holding me up by an artist on the cover.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa continued, &#8220;Missing the Love of my Life and my sweet little Mamacita\u2014my fellow Taurus. Grateful to wake up to my 3 sweet girls today. Wish we were all together. #MyBirthdayWish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her birthday was also just days after her daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1147176\/vanessa-bryant-shares-heartfelt-tribute-to-gianna-bryant-on-her-14th-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gianna would have turned 14<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy 14th Birthday to my sweet baby girl, Gianna. Mommy loves you more than I can ever show you,&#8221; Vanessa wrote at the time. &#8220;You are part of MY SOUL forever. I miss you so much everyday. I wish I could wake up and have you here with me. I miss your smile, your hugs and your giggles. I miss EVERYTHING about YOU, Gigi. I LOVE YOU so much!!!!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;Happy 14th Birthday Gigi! I miss your smile everyday but I know you&#8217;re always smiling down on us from heaven with daddy. I LOVE YOU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1150348\/vanessa-bryant-celebrates-mother-s-day-with-heartwarming-presents-from-her-daughter-natalia?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! 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