Vanessa Bryant took to Instagram on Saturday to share a video of youngest daughter, Capri Kobe Bryant, nicknamed Koko. In the video, a smiling Capri tries to stand on her own. “My Koko Bean. She looks just like my Gigi,” Vanessa captioned of the clip, which featured the late Kobe Bryant’s sister, Sharia Washington.
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On January 26th, Kobe and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna ‘Gigi’ Bryant were killed in a fatal helicopter crash. A few days after the heartbreaking news, Vanessa broke her silence in a lengthy social media post.
“There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now,” she wrote in the caption of her post. “I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever.”
She added, “I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way.”
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A memorial for Kobe Bryant and Gianna will be held at Staples Center, the arena where the N.B.A. legend played for most of his 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. The service will be held Feb. 24 at 10 a.m., Vanessa Bryant said in an Instagram post, which described the memorial as “A Celebration of Life.”
