Natalia Bryant Graduates Cum Laude from the University of Southern California — and Mom Vanessa Bryant Celebrates: ‘So Proud’

Natalia Bryant graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California.

The skilled fashion, 22, marked the instance with an Instagram put up shared on Friday, May 16.

“25’❤️🎓,” Natalia wrote along a portrait of herself dressed in a white get dressed with a purple and gold stole that learn “cum laude” and incorporated the Greek letters of her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Mom Vanessa Bryant additionally celebrated the milestone second with social media posts of her personal.

“We’re so proud of you @nataliabryant ! ❤️🎓🎉#USC ✌️#GRAD,” Vanessa, 43, wrote, sharing extra footage on Instagram in one put up. “4 ever 🫶🏽❤️👑🐍 @nataliabryant ❤️🎉 #USCGRAD #CumLaude,” she added in every other.

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Natalia opened as much as PEOPLE solely in 2024 about how she balances her skilled and academic lifestyles.

“If someone says [being a full-time student] is not difficult, they’re lying, because it is,” she stated on the time. “That in itself is a full-time job.”

Natalia persisted, “But I do think that having a great support team, family and friends, has been the most important thing.”

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Natalia made her runway debut with Versace at Milan Fashion Week in 2024. At the time, she expressed hobby in coming into the fad international full-time post-grad.

Citing her more youthful sister Bianka, 8, as certainly one of her model inspirations, Natalia informed PEOPLE, “She is such a strong personality and she knows what she wants. She wakes up, she knows what she wants to wear, she knows how to style, she’ll know how to style me.”

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Natalia, Vanessa and the remainder of their circle of relatives confronted tragedy when Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant died in a helicopter crash in 2020.

Vanessa in the past praised her daughter’s power amid the lack of her father and sister, and the way she appeared out for her little sisters whilst navigating her personal long term, in a March 2021 interview with PEOPLE.

“On top of her own grief, she has balanced her senior year of high school, applying to colleges, nurturing her sisters, and just recently signing her own modeling contract with IMG,” she stated, then calling Natalia her “right-hand woman.”