Natalia Bryant Reveals Necklace That Honors Late Dad Kobe With His Nickname For Her

Natalia Bryant, 19, has a peculiar necklace that pays tribute to her father Kobe Bryant that she showed disconnected successful a video with Vogue Beauty Secrets on December 1. Natalia held up the golden necklace which says, “Slim,” and she explained the meaning down the sentimental portion of jewelry.

“This is simply a necklace that says ‘Slim.’ That was my nickname increasing up,” the teen explained. “I was conscionable truthful eency-teency. All my jerseys said slim. I didn’t turn into the jerseys until I was, like, older. So my dada would ever telephone maine slim.”

Kobe Bryant with his girl Natalia and Gianna (Photo: Jevone Moore / SplashNews.)

Natalia showed disconnected different necklace from the Mamba and Mambacita Foundation. “And this is our necklace from our foundation, the Mamba and Mambcaita Foundation. I really deterioration this medallion with maine each the time,” Natalia said. “It says ‘Dedication makes dreams travel true.’ And it’s a punctuation from my dad. So it’s thing that I unrecorded by.”

Natalia mislaid her dada Kobe and her sister Gianna in the tragic January 2020 chopper crash. The NBA fable and Gianna were killed on with 7 different people. The Mamba and Mabacita Fondation was founded aft the mishap and focuses connected creating opportunities for underserved athletes, successful grant of Kobe and Gianna.

Since the tragedy, Natalia has started college astatine the University of Southern California (USC). When she near for the school, her ma Vanessa Bryant said connected Instagram that saying goodbye to Natalia was “rough.” Vanessa is raising her and Kobe’s 2 younger daughters, Bianka Bryant, 5, and Capri Bryant, 3, connected her own.

In August, Vanessa marked Kobe’s 44th birthday with an affectional Instagram tribute wherever she remembered her precocious husband. She posted a photograph of Kobe from 2009 from erstwhile the jock won his fourth NBA rubric with the LA Lakers and his archetypal NBA Finals MVP. “Happy birthday, baby! I emotion you and miss you truthful much!” Vanessa wrote.