Vanessa Bryant took a moment to remember the beginning of his magical life with the deceased Kobe Bryant on the 24th anniversary of their first meeting. The 41-year-old took to Instagram on the evening of November 27 to post a photo of the young couple captured earlier that day.
“24 years ago…Day 1,” she captioned the aged snapshot.
Remembering the day Kobe and Vanessa met
It can be inferred that this is probably the first photo of the couple together, considering that they met on the set of the music video. “Tha Eastsidaz” of Snoop Dogg.
Iconic behind-the-scenes footage from the video shoot shows the unmistakable joy on Kobe when he first saw her on set.
Kobe Bryant fell in love the first time he saw Vanessa Bryant
“It was a two-day video shoot and I was always looking for it,” the Lakers legend recalls in the video. “I would finish a take and then go to my trailer, but I was wondering where she was the whole time. I would come out of the trailer and just want to talk to her more between takes.”
Vanessawho was then 17 years old and a dancer, gave her phone number to Kobe, 20 years old. He called her the next day, they talked for hours and the rest is history.
Kobe He previously shared the same image on November 28, 2019, commemorating their 20th “reunion.”
“On this day 20 years ago I met my best friend, my queen @vanessabryant,” he wrote, announcing plans for an “old school style” celebration at Disneyland that night, which he documented with a photograph.
Tragically, just two months later, Kobe And your daughter Gianna, 13, lost their lives in a helicopter accident, along with several other people. She was 41 years old at the time.
Kobe Bryant’s legacy lives on
At the beginning of this year, Vanessa celebrated what would have been the 45th birthday of Kobeexpressing their eternal love along with a series of photographs documenting their relationship.
That same month, Vanessa y Los Angeles Lakersthe team where Kobe He spent his entire 20-year career in NBArevealed plans for a statue in his honor.
“I feel very honored that right in the center of Los Angeles, in front of the place known as ‘The House that Kobe Built,’ we are going to unveil a statue so that his legacy can be celebrated forever,” she announced in a statement. video.
The statue is scheduled to be inaugurated in Crypto.com Arena on February 8, 2024.
2023-11-28 18:43:13
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