News: Will Smith and Ex-Wife Reunite to Celebrate Son's Birthday at Vegas Bash
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's marriage may be the target of endless gossip, but one thing is for sure: the couple plays nice with his ex-wife.
The Hollywood Exes reality star — who was married to Will from 1992 to 1995, during his Fresh Prince
days — reposted photos from the event and had nothing by kind words to
say about it. "Celebrating @ace0011 with the BEST bonus mom ever!!!
#Jada & babydaddy #VegasBaby," she wrote.
"Bonus mom" was a term Jada adopted after she said "I do" to Will in 1997. During an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in
2010, she explained that after she and Will married and started their
own family, they came together with Sheree and her second husband, NFL
star turned pastor Terrell Fletcher, as a close-knit extended family for
the sake of their children.
"Sheree and I both had to make
that decision, because at the end of the day, we had Trey and that had
to be the primary focus," Jada told
Oprah. "So we had to put aside our own craziness, our stuff, all the
baggage that comes with it. She and I just had to focus on, 'What does
he need?' ... At the end of the day, it's like, we have to let go of our
own selfish desires [and] look [at] what can we do to facilitate the
group, and facilitate the children, who ultimately are our future."
Sheree told Oprah it took a long time for them to get to that place,
but they did. "You realize, [Will and I] had our chance, now it's about
those kids," she said.Jada and Sheree — who's in the process of divorcing Fletcher — are so close they even chat about typical friend things like books. Jada, along with Will, produced the 2008 movie adaptation of the book The Secret Life of Bees after Sheree recommended the read to Jada.
"My bonus son's mother actually called me, Sheree, and she said, 'Jada, you have to read this book," she recalled. "And I fell in love with it."
As for birthday boy Trey, who inspired Will's hit "Just the Two of Us" (and appeared in the 1998 video with his famous father), he's a deejay and he provided the music for his own birthday bash.
During an interview with VH1
earlier this year, Sheree talked about how Trey differs from his
half-siblings, Willow, 14, and Jaden, 16, who have Hollywood careers and
are often making headlines.
"Trey was raised differently – in a different home," Sheree said.
"Trey doesn’t really like the limelight. I don't want to say he’s more
grounded, but he just had a different upbringing. He wasn’t as exposed
to the whole Hollywood aspect of life. A lot of that was by choice
because [his] dad wouldn’t leave him out. [However,] he has an insight
and he doesn’t like anything that's not real or authentic."
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