By admin :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(926x547:928x549)/Natalia-Bryant-Vanessa-Bryant-051725-01-810860e90beb4a65a529aa37fa875c2c.jpg?w=1200&resize=1200,0&ssl=1 "Natalia Bryant Graduates Cum Laude from Faculty, Mother Vanessa Bryant Celebrates")
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- Natalia Bryant, the eldest daughter of the late Kobe Bryant, graduated cum laude from the College of Southern California on Could 16
- The mannequin, who was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, marked the event with a social media put up
- Natalia’s mother, Vanessa Bryant, additionally celebrated the milestone event with social media posts of her personal
Natalia Bryant graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California.
The skilled mannequin, 22, marked the event with an Instagram post shared on Friday, Could 16.
“25’❤️🎓,” Natalia wrote alongside a portrait of herself carrying a white costume with a crimson and gold stole that learn “cum laude” and included the Greek letters of her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Mother Vanessa Bryant additionally celebrated the milestone second with social media posts of her personal.
“We’re so pleased with you @nataliabryant ! ❤️🎓🎉#USC ✌️#GRAD,” Vanessa, 43, wrote, sharing extra pictures on Instagram in one post. “4 ever 🫶🏽❤️👑🐍 @nataliabryant ❤️🎉 #USCGRAD #CumLaude,” she added in another.
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Natalia opened as much as PEOPLE completely in 2024 about how she balances her skilled and academic life.
“If somebody says [being a full-time student] shouldn’t be tough, they’re mendacity, as a result of it’s,” she mentioned on the time. “That in itself is a full-time job.”
Natalia continued, “However I do assume that having an excellent assist staff, household and buddies, has been crucial factor.”
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Natalia made her runway debut with Versace at Milan Fashion Week in 2024. On the time, she expressed curiosity in coming into the style world full-time post-grad.
Citing her youthful sister Bianka, 8, as one among her style inspirations, Natalia informed PEOPLE, “She is such a robust character and he or she is aware of what she needs. She wakes up, she is aware of what she needs to put on, she is aware of easy methods to model, she’ll know easy methods to model me.”
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Natalia, Vanessa and the remainder of their household confronted tragedy when Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant died in a helicopter crash in 2020.
Vanessa beforehand praised her daughter’s energy amid the lack of her father and sister, and the way she seemed out for her little sisters whereas navigating her personal future, in a March 2021 interview with PEOPLE.
“On high of her personal grief, she has balanced her senior 12 months of highschool, making use of to high schools, nurturing her sisters, and only recently signing her personal modeling contract with IMG,” she mentioned, then calling Natalia her “right-hand girl.”