They were approached by a company and offered work as music video extras and backup dancers. In August 1999, Bryant and her friend Rowena Ireifej attended a hip-hop concert at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. Her family's home was in Garden Grove, California, and she resided with her step-grandfather Robert Laine in Huntington Beach, California. She began going by Laine after the marriage and officially changed her name to Vanessa Marie Laine in 2000, despite never officially being adopted by her step-father. In 1990, her mother married Stephen Laine, who was a middle manager at the same electronics company that she worked in. Her mother was a shipping clerk at an electronics company. After her parents' divorce, her biological father moved to Baja California. Her parents divorced when she was a baby. She is of Mexican, Irish, English and German descent. She is the president and chief executive officer of Granity Studios and a member of the board of directors of Bodyarmor SuperDrink.īryant was born on May 5, 1982, in Los Angeles, California. Bryant leads the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation to support child athletes who are in need. They founded the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation in 2007 to provide scholarships to minority college students worldwide. She was married to basketball player Kobe Bryant. Vanessa Marie Bryant (previously Laine born Vanessa Urbieta Cornejo May 5, 1982) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and model.

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