Venessa Marie Bryant is a former American philanthropist and model born in 1982 in Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, California. She is of English, Mexican, German, and Irish descent. In 1996, Venessa attended her school named St. Boniface Parochial School and was become a member cheerleading varsity squad in Marina High School before transferring to a new school.
Early Life
In 2000, Venessa did complete her graduation with an honors degree, and after graduation, she married Basketball player Kobe Bryant. Venessa Bryant has made an appearance in various music videos for artists like Snoop Dogg, Tyrese, Pharrell, and Ludacris.
When Kobe Bryant was 21-years-old, and Vanessa Laine was 17-years-old, they met for the very first time while Venessa was a background dancer in “G’d Up,” Tha Eastsidaz music video in November 1999. Brant was working on building his debut music album at that time, but that video was never released publicly. They both exchanged their number while working on the set.
Kobe Brant and Vanessa Laine Dating
Kobe Brant and Vanessa Laine started dating and becoming engaged in May 2020, just after six months. Venessa was a senior in Huntington Beach, California’s school; then she decided to complete her high school from the home program because of pandemonium with her dating Kobe Bryant.
According to Laila Laine, Vanessa’s cousin, there was no agreement signed related to prenuptial. At the age of 18, Venessa Bryant married Kobe Bryan on 2001 18 April at St. Edward Roman Catholic Church in California. Neither Bryant’s two sisters, parents, agent Arn Tellem, and Laker teammates nor Bryant’s longtime advisor attended. Bryant’s parents opposed the marriage for several reasons.
The main problem was that Bryant married at a very early age, and another problem is that he is not married to African-American women. This disagreement between Bryant and Bryant’s parents resulted in over two years of estrangement, which ended when Bryant had his first daughter. Venessa gives birth to Kobe’s daughter child in the year 2003 named Natalia Diamante. In spring 2005, Vanessa suffered from a miscarriage due to ectopic pregnancy. Venessa gives birth to her second daughter child Gianna Maria-Onore 2006, 1 May.
Kobe Bryant and Venessa Marriage
Kobe Bryant and Venessa find their relation very hard to manage; that is why Venessa filed divorces because of their irreconcilable differences in 2011, 16 December, but the couple requested joint custody for their daughters Natalia Diamante and Gianna Maria-Onore. After spending some precious time together, Venessa announced on 2013 11 January that they both decided to call off the divorce on a social media platform.
In 2016, Venessa gave birth to her third daughter child named Bianka Bella, and In 2019, 4 July give birth to her fourth daughter child, Capri. The most unaccepted incident arrived in Venessa’s life when she lost her husband, Kobe Bryant, and her second daughter, Gianna Maria-Onore, in the California area’s Calabasas due to a helicopter crash.
In the morning of 2020, 6 January, a helicopter named Sikorsky S-76B was carrying Kobe and Gianna with seven other occupants, which includes 13-year-old Gigi’s friends and teammates Payton Chester and Alyssa Altobelli, the friends of parents John and Keri Altobelli (Orange Coast College’s head baseball coach), pilot Ara Zobayan, Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser (basketball coach) crashed in Calabasas, California.
