This week, actor Boris Kodjoe and his wife, Nicole Ari Parker, celebrated the birthday of their beautiful daughter, Sophie Tei Naaki Lee Kodjoe, who just turned 10 years old.
Sophie was born with with spina bifida, a birth defect in which a developing baby’s spinal cord fails to develop properly. It can cause paralysis, bladder and bowel complications.
“We were blessed with a miracle child and spared of the more severe symptoms, but Sophie’s spastic bladder still forces us to catheterize her every three hours, day and night, to avoid pressure build up in her bladder and urine backflow into her kidneys,” Kodjoe said during an interview with Essence last October.
But on Facebook yesterday, the Addicted star played our heart strings when he penned an open letter praising Sophie for her battle, highlighting her strength and courage.
To My Little Heart,
The day I met your mother I knew I was ready to be a man. The day I met you I became one. You’ve shown me what true strength and courage is [sic] and you taught me that the love of faith and the faith in love is one and the same.
I’m in awe of your ability to defy the odds and I marvel at the confidence with which you produce miracle after miracle. You smile your way through life and your light touches everyone around you.
I’m proud of you because you are your mother’s daughter, I’m proud of you because you are
Sophie Tei-Naaki Lee Kodjoe.Happy 10th Birthday my little heart. I love you more than you will ever believe.
Daddy
#ThankYouGodForMyAngel
On Twitter, his wife, Nicole, tweeted a birthday photo (shown above) featuring the entire family, including little brother Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe, wishing Sophie a happy birthday. Happy birthday little Sophie!
