Vanessa Laine

Vanessa Cornejo Urbieta Laine Bryant (born May 5, 1982, in Huntington Beach, California) is the wife of Kobe Bryant, an American All-Star shooting guard who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Vanessa is of Mexican and Irish descent. She currently has two daughters with Kobe.
Vanessa was born in Huntington Beach, California to Sofia Urbieta, and has a sister, Sophie, who is ten years older. Both of her parents are of Mexican descent. Sophie and Vanessa's parents divorced when Vanessa was just a baby, after which her father had moved to Baja, Mexico. Sofia raised her daughters alone until 1990, when she married Stephen Laine. In high school Vanessa legally changed her family name to Laine even though Stephen never adopted Vanessa. For the most part, Vanessa was raised by her step-grandfather, Robert Laine.
The Laines lived in Anaheim and Temecula before moving to Garden Grove, where they bought a four-bedroom house. Vanessa graduated from St. Boniface parochial school in 1995, and Laine used his father's Huntington Beach address to get Vanessa into his alma mater, Marina High School. Vanessa wanted to attend Marina High to be with her stepfather's nieces, because she was very close to them.
Vanessa met Kobe Bryant in November 1999, when she was 17, while she was working as a background dancer in the video G'd Up from the rap group Tha Eastsidaz. Bryant was in the building working on his album, which was never released.
After the wedding the couple drove away in Kobe's Ferrari. They moved into a $4.1 million mansion in Newport Beach, California.
Vanessa gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Natalia Diamante Bryant, on Sunday January 19, 2003. In April 2005, Vanessa suffered a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy. On Monday May 1, 2007 their second daughter, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant was born.

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