When Vanessa feels overcome with her loss she thinks of her departed loved ones and her three children — Natalia, Bianka, 4, and 20-month-old Capri — to give her strength.
She said: “I guess the best way to describe it is that Kobe and Gigi motivate me to keep going. They inspire me to try harder and be better every day.
“Their love is unconditional and they motivate me in so many different ways.”
Vanessa admitted the grief has been “unimaginable” since Kobe’s death at the age of 41, but she wants to push on to make the best life for both herself and her family.
She said: “This pain is unimaginable [but] you just have to get up and push forward.
“Lying in bed crying isn’t going to change the fact that my family will never be the same again.
“But getting out of bed and pushing forward is going to make the day better for my girls and for me. So that’s what I do.”
