10 Things You Never Knew About Kobe's Wife Vanessa Bryant

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Kobe’s parents didn’t want him to marry her.

The reason? The couple were too young when they got hitched—with no pre-nuptial agreement—in 2001, they said, so they didn’t attend the wedding. But las malas lenguas say mom and pop reportedly didn’t like that she wasn’t African American.