Vanessa Bryant
Vanessa Bryant with her daughters Gianna and Natalia in 2008
Birth Name: Vannessa Urbieta Cornejo
Place of Birth: Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: May 5, 1982
Ethnicity: Mexican
Vanessa Bryant, also known as Vanessa Laine Bryant, was an American businessperson, philanthropist, and model. She was married to NBA star Kobe Bryant, until his death. The couple has had four children. Their daughter Gianna, also a basketball player, died with Kobe in a helicopter crash in 2020.
She was born to Mexican parents, despite websites stating that she is of part Irish descent. She adopted the surname Laine from her stepfather, Stephen Laine, becoming known as Vanessa Marie Laine.
Vanessa’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Urbieta.
Vanessa’s maternal grandmother’s surname was Rangel.
Sources: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com
http://transcripts.cnn.com
Genealogy of Vanessa Laine Bryant (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
did anybody notice she was born on cinco de mayo.
now you mention it it…
im sure her mexican parents were pissed she married a brother!..
I’m pretty sure the part of Mexico her family is from is Baja, because I’ve read that after her parents divorced her father moved back to Baja. Off the ethnicity subject, I think Vanessa is so pretty! Her and Kobe made cute kids too! LoL
Were from mexico are her parents from
“Kobe, who is fluent in Spanish and Italian is no stranger to the Latin culture as he grew up in Italy as a young child. And yes Italians are also Latin.”
Latin culture and Latin are two different things. Mexicans and Italians have no relation!
Culturally,much of latin music is afro cuban influenced and the food is very heavily African influenced. The Spanish transported over 300,000 Africans to Mexico. That is why African genes are detected in Eva and George’s DNA. The Moors of Africa were stationed in Spain for HUNDREDS of years. At least one of Mexico’s most important presidents, Guerrero, was of African heritage. Read Ivan Van Sertima’s book about Africans in Mexico before Columbus.
Your have to go that far to find that out.The thing is they don’t teach this infromation in the northern part of Mexico ,at least from what I’m seeing.You tell a Mexican they have African heritage,they have a heart attack.However tell them they got Irish heritage,well now that’s seem to be ok with them;that’s crazy huh!