Vanessa Bryant revealed on Instagram this week that her 17-year-old daughter Natalia has sprained her wrist and a finger while skiing.
The widow of Kobe Bryant uploaded a video this Wednesday of Natalia having her hand looked at by family friend Dr Dustin Glass.
‘Nobody told you to go skiing!’ joked Vanessa in the video, prompting Natalia to pull a face at her. ‘Latina mom line,’ said Vanessa.
Uh-oh: Vanessa Bryant revealed on Instagram this week that her 17-year-old daughter Natalia has sprained her wrist and a finger while skiing
‘Sprained finger & wrist (tbd until swelling goes down). This is payback for making fun of daddy’s fingers @nataliabryant,’ she wrote in the caption.
‘I was waiting for that Vitti finger pull so I tried to distract her. Thankfully that wasn’t necessary,’ Vanessa added of her jokes in the video.
‘We’ve known Dustin and his family since Natalia was 5. Natalia and his eldest daughter, Shayna, were in ballet together,’ she added.
‘Gigi and Aly played soccer together,’ Vanessa wrote, referring to her late daughter Gianna who died at 13 in a helicopter crash with Kobe this January.
Getting it seen to: The widow of Kobe Bryant uploaded a video this Wednesday of Natalia having her hand looked at by family friend Dr. Dustin Glass
‘Latina mom line’: ‘Nobody told you to go skiing!’ joked Vanessa in the video, prompting Natalia to pull a face at her
‘Sprained finger & wrist (tbd until swelling goes down)’: ‘This is payback for making fun of daddy’s fingers @nataliabryant,’ Vanessa wrote in the caption
‘So grateful for good people coming through for us and helping us out when we need them most. Thx for checking on my Nani’s pinky finger and cracking my back.’
She has three living daughters by Kobe, whom she married when she was 18 – Natalia, 17, Bianka, four, and Capri, one.
Vanessa has undergone a harrowing year beginning with Kobe and Gigi’s death in a helicopter crash that also killed the seven other people on board.
‘Thankfully that wasn’t necessary’: ‘I was waiting for that Vitti finger pull so I tried to distract her,’ Vanessa added of her jokes in the video
‘We’ve known Dustin and his family since Natalia was 5’: ‘Natalia and his eldest daughter, Shayna, were in ballet together,’ Vanessa added
‘Thx’: ‘So grateful for good people coming through for us and helping us out when we need them most,’ gushed Vanessa in her caption
She has since publicly feuded with her mother, and has sued the helicopter company as well as the estate of the late pilot Ara Zobayan over the crash.
The grieving widow and mother has also sued Los Angeles cops over the leaking of crash site photos allegedly taken on cell-phones for ‘personal purposes.’
‘As the Department would later admit, there was no investigative purpose for deputies to take pictures at the crash site,’ her claim said, according to People.
Looking back: ‘Gigi and Aly played soccer together,’ Vanessa wrote, referring to her late daughter Gianna who died at 13 in a helicopter crash with Kobe this January
Family photo: She has three living daughters by Kobe, whom she married when she was 18 – Natalia, 17, Bianka, four, and Capri, one
Vanessa’s mother Sofia Urbieta Laine has filed a lawsuit asking support and saying that Kobe ‘promised to take care of’ her ‘for the rest of her life.’
Earlier this month Vanessa issued a statement slamming her mother and saying she was attempting to ‘extort a financial windfall from our family.’
Vanessa stated: ‘She was a grandmother who was supported by me and her son-in-law at my request. She now wants to back charge me $96 per hour for supposedly working 12 hours a day for 18 years for watching her grandchildren. In reality, she only occasionally babysat my older girls when they were toddlers.’
Side by side: Natalia is pictured posing up beside her mother at the start of the year
On the go: Natalia also recently responded to an Instagram ‘Post a pic of…’ challenge by uploading a photo to her Stories of herself skiing