Dwyane Wadeis feeling the birthday love.
The retired NBA star turned 39 on Sunday, and his wifeGabrielle Unioncelebrated with a sweet video on Instagram that featured a montage of the couple and their 2-year-old daughterKaavia James. Wade’s three children,Zaire Blessing Dwyane, 18,Xavier Zechariah, 7, andZaya, 13, are also featured in the video.
Zaire shared his own tribute to his dad on Instagram with a sweet father-son throwback photo. “3️⃣9️⃣🤞🏾 Love you deeper than the surface 🖤,” he captioned the post.
Wade — who is also the guardian of nephew Dahveon Morris, 18 — married Union on August 30, 2014, in Miami, Florida, and the actress became a stepmother to his children. In 2018, the couple welcomed their first child, daughter Kaavia James, via surrogacy.
The former NBA startold PEOPLElast February that the key to his and Union’s lasting bond is that they’re always supportive of one another.
“She is her own boss and has her own career, her own bank account and all that,” said Wade. “She has her own life and she allows me to live my life and be me, and she doesn’t try to stop my growth or change who I am.”
“We both work very hard for our families and we love that about each other,” he added. “We love that we grind, we go for it, we work, but we still find time for our family and find time to spend time together and love each other.
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade with Zaya and Kaavia.Gabrielle Union/instagram
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade.
Wade also opened up about fatherhood to PEOPLE last February ahead of the premiere of his documentaryD. Wade: Life Unexpected, discussing how his perspective of parenthood has changed since he welcomed his first child, Zaire.
Admitting he “always” has fears as a parent even presently, the athlete said he’s “scared in a different way now” than when hebecame a first-time father at barely 20 years old.
“Now [Zaire is] 18 and I’m like, ‘He’s about to go to college’ — I’m even more scared,” Wade said. “When a kid is born, they don’t come out with a pamphlet that’s like, ‘Okay, these are the directions for this kid.’ So you just figure it out and try to help raisesomeone who’s good and kind, andjust characteristics that you want your kids to hopefully have. And that’s in you already.”
“You’re afraid because you don’t want to mess up; you don’t want anything to happen to them,” he continued. “But I think, ultimately, we all have itinside of us to help lead someone, whether that’s your kids, godson or goddaughter, niece or nephew, coworker — we all have it in us to lead. It’s no different when you have a kid.”
source: people.com
