before Vanessa Bryant would celebrate 18 years of marriage alongside superstar
NBA legend Kobe Bryant and together the two would father four daughters before
Vanessa Bryan with klockan over 12 million followers on Instagram and
become close friends with a listeners including JLo Michelle Obama Beyonce and
more before Vanessa Bryant our husband and 13 year old daughter in a fatal
helicopter crash and would be joined as the world mourn for her tragic and
unimaginable grief first off I need to start off by saying that our hearts and
our prayers they go out to Vanessa Bryant her daughters and all their loved
ones during this difficult time now Vanessa she's been through more on her
own than the entire cast of the real Basketball Wives combined now once upon
a time the two well they used to just get pounded by TMZ relentlessly they
were her in Kobe they literally grew up together meeting when they were still
kids themselves while on a music video shoot and their young Vanessa well she
certainly got herself Jada up that was the name of the music video damn now you
might have heard the story of how this pair met on a music video shoot but
you'll likely haven't heard the story of how she got the gig at just 17 now if
you're wondering more about the Latina who captured this pro-athletes heart
well we've got you covered
what's going on guys it's for Michael cretin documenting the life and career
of a NASA Brian prior to fame here for you of course up before their famous no
recent drops on this channel have been in memoriam videos for the lake Opie and
their daughter Gianna now we make these videos with a lot of heart and a lot of
hard work so please leave your well wishes in the comments down below
alright now let's get him into this video
Vanessa Brian was born Vanessa Korn AO or brietta lane on May 5th 1982 in Los
Angeles California no she is of half Irish and Mexican descent she has an
older sister named Sophie who is 10 years older than her no Vanessa's
biological father he hasn't been a part of our life since she was a young child
and eventually she would go on to adopt the last name of her stepfather Steven
Lane where mom married in 1990 now the two they worked together at an
electronics store no money was tight and for the family raising two young girls
well so were the rules but for the most part while they seemed to be a very
happy blended family we decided to scour the web and pull up all the throwback
photos we can find from Vanessa's childhood there's all sorts of photos of
her here and there and there when vanessa was 11 years old she saved her
friend's little sister from drowning at the bottom of the deep end now she's
also got a few other throwback photos on her Instagram including this one where
the caption read this was my eighth grade graduation at st. Boniface
Catholic school yes I graduated with cords for being an honor student and
commissioner of school spirit ha Koby calls me an undercover nerd law and
there was also this one is this pom-pom enough Magic Mountain cheer competition
I was about 95 pounds flyer OMG no while in her teens Vanessa's she split her
time between studying algebra two at Marina high school in Huntington Beach
she also worked a retail job at Westminister mall now when she would go
out she would have to call her parents on the hour and there were no cell
phones at least she didn't have one but what she did have was a pager
no one weekend after leaving an all-day rap festival in Irvine California well a
man here stur holding a camcorder yeah I know
that's never a good luck well it turns out he was scouting pretty girls to
model in music videos and Vanessa well she fit the mold Vanessa she
recited her name and her number for the camera and days later she started
booking some gigs now this included a music video shoot for crazy bones as
well as the east side us and that was in the music video G top so if you ever
wondered if them rappers knew all the girls in their videos well now you know
it's some creep on the street with a camera anyway
Kobe he just so happened to be at the studio the video was being filmed at and
he was working on his own later shell debut rap album at the time well the two
they crossed paths they hit it off and as the story goes
Vanessa she was only 17 years old at the time regardless Kobe he was 21 years old
and he liked what he saw he was also a total stud he was the youngest all-star
starter in NBA history and he was finishing his third season in the NBA oh
yeah he had also just signed a six-year contract worth the whopping 71 million
dollars man had it all what he didn't have was a little lady to call his own
that don't mean there were no shortage of girls in his life I mean he did take
Brandi to his prom but I guess he liked what he saw in Vanessa because the two
they quickly hit it off the two they exchanged numbers I'm guessing to their
pagers and they actually took a picture together now they do post these more
recently to their Instagram sighting the first time they ever met and Kobe his
caption at read this big is the day I asked lady VB 24 for her number on
November 28th 1999 through the ups and downs she has been my love and best
friend 20 and 17 years old when we met we have actually grown up together a
true honor and a blessing TMO queen Mamba there you can imagine that their
encounter became big news at high school and Vanessa well she was said to have a
poster of Kobe pinned up in her locker so all the other studs at school if they
didn't know well now they certainly did know soon enough Kobe he began sending
flowers to the school and then picking her up in his Mercedes and from their
word of their courtship well it began spreading further than just within her
high school hallways there a media frenzy outside of the school
with cable news networks and even helicopters looking to get a photo of
the young couple now eventually it reached such an extreme height that the
school they asked Vanessa to finish her senior year at home
she had to do some independent study but who needs school I mean the girl had an
NBA champ on lockdown as Kobe he went on to win the 1999 to 2000 season after six
months of dating the two were engaged in May of 2000 now according to Vanessa's
family there was no prenuptial agreement with Kobe citing that he loved her too
much to have one know the ceremony it was a small one with few in attendance
it took place at st. edward's the Confessor Catholic Church in Danna Point
California and Kobe's own parents while they were opposed to the Union so they
decided not to show up not having his parent's approval one because they were
so young and two it said because she was an african-american well this resulted
in an estrangement period for over two years from Kobe and his family now this
ended when the couple had their first daughter who was born in 2003 around
this time there would be a number of hiccups for the young couple
no there was Kobe's case which I really don't want to get into in this video now
there was also Vanessa's parents her mom and her stepdad well they got divorced
it turns out that all the men in her world well they all decided to start
cheating at the exact same time no their oldest daughter Natalie Demonte Bryant
she was born on January 19 2003 three years later Gianna Marie Bryant she was
born on May 1st 2006 now after the first two children were born well Vanessa and
Kobe they hit another rough patch in their marriage this was in 2011 when she
filed for divorce but thankfully the pair well they were able to work it out
wait 2013 the pair had called off the divorce and they actually released the
statement via instagram where vanessa said we are pleased to announce that we
have reconciled our divorce action will be dismissed we are looking forward to
our future together in 2016 Kobe and Vanessa they welcomed Bianca Bella
Bryant then in 2019 well Vanessa she gave birth to their fourth daughter who
they named Capri Kobe Bryant now the basketball legend he regularly posted
photos of his wife and his daughters to social media accounts and by all means
well the guy was a gushing husband and father now the NBA star he would even
shoot down claims that he ever wanted any son for his own having a boy my wife
wants a boy moreso than that oh I see oh I love my girls you know she keeps
saying stop speaking it into existence which is hard to believe but true the
last photo posted by Kobe to his Instagram was of his entire family
together and this was a collage of their Christmas events and he posted on
December 25th 2019 now of course we all know what happened next
now this has to be an unimaginably hard time for Vanessa and their three
daughters and really anyone close to the family now our best wishes go to them
from us here at before they're famous please leave your messages of
condolences in the comments down below be positive elsewhere online and as for
the rest of the story well you know it or you can find it elsewhere because
this is before they are famous if you like this video we have made other
videos in memoriam for Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryan so if you like that well if
you want to know more you can check those out and I'll see you guys in
another video okay
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