Are Kobe and Vanessa Bryant spoiled by wealth and fame?”
LA Times says Kobe’s wife was ‘just another sheltered teenager in Orange County.’ When Vanessa Laine was 17, her life was so sheltered that her parents, according to writer Shawn Hubler of the “Los Angeles Times,” made her call home hourly from a trip to Magic Mountain. During a three-month stint as a music video extra – her first taste of “fame” beyond her Orange County home – her mother was right there on-set as a chaperone during her shoots. Then she met Kobe Bryant. “If he wears the pants in the family, she tells him which ones to wear,” one Bryant associate told “The Times” of the couple’s relationship these days. Based on interviews with dozens of friends, relatives, former classmates, Bryant’s entourage and others who have known her, the “Times” paints Vanessa as “a once-dutiful, if willful, young woman who has had to adjust, sometimes painfully, to life as the wife of one of America’s biggest sports stars. Relatives describe a deeply family-oriented girl whose sudden wealth has
