Coco Austin just received the kind of tribute every mom dreams of and it came straight from the heart of her daughter.
Over the weekend, 9-year-old Chanel shared an emotional video on Instagram, reading an essay she wrote about her mom. The clip opens with Chanel sitting at her desk in her pink bedroom, holding up the message she typed in her iPhone Notes app before reading it out loud.
“How much longer until I have with my mom. Sometimes that question drifts into my mind. Not because anything is wrong, but because loving someone so deeply makes you think about how precious every moment is,” Chanel began reading aloud.
“I know I’m still young but when I’m mad at my mom, I always think that some people in the world don’t even have a mom because they left for some odd reason,” she continued. “And if something happens, they’re going to be there with me. She is going to be there. She carried me and birthed me. She stops everything to be with me.”
She continued saying, “When I look at my mom, I don’t just see a parent, I see the person who has shaped my whole world. Someone who fills my life with comfort, laughter and love. That feels bigger than anything else.”
Chanel also thanked her mom in the essay for being there for her and helping her out with her schoolwork. The 9-year-old went on to say that the thought of not having her mom around forever makes her sad.
Chanel captioned the poignant message, “A message to my glorious precious amazing mother!”
Of course Coco responded immediately to her daughter’s post in the comments. “Baby, this is sooooo special to me! Your words are beautiful! I know exactly what you mean,” she wrote.
She concluded, “Will be together not in this life but for the next and eternity. I love you sweetheart,” she wrote. “Also im a very lucky girl that you picked me to be your mom.”
The mother-daughter duo has always been close, and earlier this month Austin opened up on the Dumb Blonde podcast about breastfeeding Chanel until she was six, something she described not as necessity, but as connection.
“It wasn’t like I was feeding her because she needed a meal,” she explained to Bunnie Xo. “It was more of a bonding experience and more of like, ‘Okay, I’ll give you the milk.’ But, it was more like she wanted to be around me.”
Austin said she simply followed her daughter’s lead regarding when to stop.
“She’s not gonna be 16 on my boob,” she joked in her interview. “She’s gonna eventually figure out, ‘Okay, this is kinda strange or weird and stuff.’ And that happened around 6.”
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Photo Credit: Coco Austin Instagram
