Vanessa Bryant Unveils Kobe Handprints Alongside Daughters Natalia, Bianka & Capri

Vanessa Bryant looked similar a arrogant woman and parent during the ceremonial to unveil her precocious husband, Kobe Bryant’s, handprints and footprints astatine the iconic Chinese Theatre successful Hollywood connected Wednesday, March 15. The stunning beauty, 40, brought on daughters Natalia, 19, Bianka, 6, & Capri, 3 to grant their NBA fable dada and sister Gianna, who both died successful a chopper crash successful January 2020.

Natalia, Vanessa, Bianka, and Capri Bryant astatine their precocious father, Kobe’s, handprint ceremonial successful March 2023. (John Salangsang/Shutterstock)

Looking similar a mini-me of her celebrated father, Natalia gave a beauteous code during the ceremony, calling Kobe the “MVP of miss dads,” per People.  “Dad, you’re an icon, a legend, the storyteller, and astir importantly, the champion miss dada immoderate young pistillate could ever imagination of,” she said. “I’m honored to beryllium present to correspond you and our family, and we are highly arrogant of you. We volition emotion you everlastingly and always. Love, Natalia, Gianna, Bianka, Capri and Mommy.”

In a heartwarming display, Bianka and Capri enactment their hands wrong the prints of their father’s connected the factual of the iconic theater. “I promote you to spot your hands successful his and instrumentality a infinitesimal to basal successful his shoes,” Natalia added. “This volition beryllium a treasure for the metropolis of Los Angeles and my dad’s fans from each implicit the satellite to clasp and to cherish.”

The household supported each different during the lawsuit astatine the Chinese Theatre. (John Salangsang/Shutterstock)

Kobe had made the impressions backmost successful 2011, erstwhile helium became the archetypal jock to person his hands and feet imprinted successful cement astatine the legendary Chinese Theatre. To commemorate him and the wage tribute to his emotion of Los Angeles, the theatre decided to permanently spot his handprints and footprints successful the forecourt of the Hollywood Boulevard venue.

The tribute comes aft Vanessa returned to the Lakers’ arena past week for the archetypal clip since Kobe and Gianna’s memorial service successful February 2020. She paid tribute to Kobe’s person and teammate, Paul Gasol, whose jersey was being retired. “I emotion you, sister,” Paul said to Vanessa astatine the event. “I’m arrogant to beryllium your brother. I’m arrogant to beryllium an uncle to your beauteous girls.”

Vanessa and her 3 daughters examining Kobe’s imprints successful the concrete. (John Salangsang/Shutterstock)

The handprint ceremonial besides comes aft the quality of Kobe’s widow reaching a $28.5 cardinal settlement from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors implicit leaked photos of the chopper crash. “Today marks the palmy culmination of Mrs. Bryant’s courageous conflict to clasp accountable those who engaged successful this grotesque conduct,” Vanessa’s lawyer said successful a March connection to People. “She fought for her husband, her daughter, and each those successful the assemblage whose deceased household were treated with akin disrespect. We anticipation her triumph astatine proceedings and this colony volition enactment an extremity to this practice.”

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