Kobe Bryant met his wife, Vanessa Laine, during a visit to the set of one of Snoop Dogg's video, where she was working as a model.
According to Heavy.com, Vanessa was still in High School when she met Kobe. After they started dating she was so inundated with photographers at Marine High School that she had to finish her studies at home school. She was just 19 when they got married; Kobe was 22.
Kobe’s parents boycotted the wedding because they thought Vanessa was too young – and didn’t sign a pre-nup. The couple went on to have two daughters, Natalia, born in 2003, and Gianna three years later. The births of grandchildren helped heal the rift with Kobe’s parents.
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