Simply when folks thought they knew all the pieces about Will Smith, he dropped a bombshell: revealing he was the oldest brother to a brother and a gang of sisters.
Most individuals assumed, based mostly on his hit sitcom, “The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air” that he was an solely youngster, companioned solely by his fictional 4 cousins. However nothing may very well be farther from the reality.
Whereas celebrating Nationwide Siblings Day earlier this week, the actor seemingly recreated a childhood picture that includes himself, his mom Caroline Vibrant (previously Smith), his brother Harry Smith, 53, Harry’s twin sister Ellen,53, and the collective’s older sister Pam Smith, 60.
The earlier than and now put up has obtained 1,221,606 likes and counting. The Smith sisters all beam with full joyful smiles together with the film star. His brother, who graduated from Hampton College, additionally gave the impression to be overwhelmed with pleasure. Will captioned it, “Now & Then with my kin 🙂 #nationalsiblingsday.”
Ellen hopped within the feedback and wrote, “Awwwww I [love] it. We appear like a dope a** field of sweets! Hey y’all. Fam Bam what’s good?!!”
The primary image is a black-and-white flick, vividly exhibiting the spectrum of shades that run by his instant household. The second, which Will posted for 2023’s Nationwide Siblings Day, is in shade and exhibits the household posing in entrance of a Spiderman-themed mural of town.
“I ain’t even know till a number of years in the past that Will Smith had siblings lol I assumed he was an solely youngster like contemporary prince,” wrote one one that caught wind of the images on X.
I ain’t even know till a number of years in the past that Will Smith had siblings lol I assumed he was an solely youngster like contemporary prince 😂
— 🎤N-jay 🏀 (@_Njay3) April 10, 2024
One fan wrote, “One factor Black persons are gonna do is barely age lol we age up.” One other noticed the entire household is getting older gracefully writing, “Dang, everyone seems to be precisely the identical!”
Nearly all of Will’s feedback part was a flood of Portuguese remarks.
Whereas People gave the impression to be boycotting the actor over the previous few years following his notorious Oscars slap, his reputation in Brazil has skyrocketed. Apparently, Will, the actor and rapper, is among the stars on the “Stay It Up” single, which served because the official 2018 World Cup music.
Produced by U.S. DJ and songwriter Diplo, American-born rapper Nicky Jam and Albanian singer Period Istrefi joined Will to supply an anthem that continues to be one of many greatest songs throughout sporting occasions for the nation.
Not pictured for this yr’s Nationwide Siblings Day are the 2 sisters that didn’t develop up with Will within the Wynnefield part of Philadelphia. Lacking is one other sister named Pam, in addition to a youthful sister named Ashley Marie Pettway Smith, born to a lady after the “Independence Day” rapper’s dad and mom divorced. In keeping with his memoir “Will,” the superstar has two sisters named Pam, born to his dad and mom from earlier marriages.
Many could not know that Will’s actual identify is Willard and that he’s a junior, named after his father, Willard Smith Sr., a small enterprise proprietor who ran an ice supply firm. He and his siblings affectionately referred to as their hardworking and demanding father “Daddio.”
Daddio and Vibrant separated when Will was 13 and legally divorced in 2000. The Oscar-winning actor states within the 2021 memoir that his father, who would die in 2016 after scuffling with most cancers, bodily abused his mom. He mentioned when he was 9 years outdated, he witnessed Daddio punch his mom “within the facet of the pinnacle so laborious that she collapsed.”
Will has all the time stood by his mom’s facet.
This isn’t the primary time that Will has posted his siblings. A couple of of them are all the time hiding in plain sight.
Through the Easter vacation, he shared an image the place the twins and Mother Mother (Vibrant’s nickname) had been swarmed round family members together with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, Jaden Smith, grandmother Adrienne Banfield-Norris (aka Gammy), Will’s oldest, Tre Smith, and Tre’s mom, his ex-wife, Sheree Zampino.