Laura Dern celebrates daughter’s 18th birthday with throwback photos – Hollywood Life +2023

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Laura Dern is a proud mom! The 55 year old Jurassic Park star increased Instagram on Monday November 28 to wish their youngest child, daughter jaya, Happy Birthday with some never-before-seen photos of Jaya growing up, which can be seen below. In the first photo, a very young Jaya smiled widely as the wind whipped through her curly blonde hair. She looked gorgeous in a pink and white striped tank top and a tie-dyed pink and white choker necklace with a daisy pendant. The second photo was a recent selfie of Jaya and her famous mom, taken in a tree-lined park, and the next photo showed Jaya as a very young child in a cute white and pink plaid dress.

“My girl is 18 today!!!” Laura captioned the sentimental slideshow. “Happy birthday Jaya! You teach me every day what it means to be an honest and deep empath, artist and activist. I love you with everything.” Although Jaya wasn’t tagged in the photo, she does have an audience Instagram Page with 15,000 followers.

Jaya celebrated her big 1-8 by posting a review of herself sitting on a cloud covered beach. She faced the camera with a smile in her eyes, but her real smile was masked by her arm crossed over the lower half of her face. She captioned the post with a simple birthday cake emoji.

Laura had a lot to celebrate this week as she shared a photo with her mother on Tuesday. Diane Ladd, on her 87th birthday. “Happy Birthday Goddess Mama!” The Golden Globe winner captioned a snap of her and her mother smiling in red dresses. “You are my endless inspiration and my favorite swim buddy!! And simply the best damn actor ever!”

Both of Laura’s children celebrated milestone birthdays this year when their son, Ellery, was 21 years old. Laura also shared a snap of him smiling and lying in the shallows in a white Quicksilver rashguard. A second photo showed Jaya, Diane, Ellery and Laura posing together for a beautiful family photo.

“The greatest gift I could have ever imagined. Happy 21st birthday my amazing son/friend/inspiration,” she gushed in the caption for her oldest child’s birthday. “You teach me every day…art…empathy…and grace. You are a profound person and artist. And you are such a nice and great man. I am so blessed and lucky to love you and learn from you. And you make me laugh every day.”

That Big little lies Star shares her children with her ex-husband of eight, Ben Harper. Ellery is a model who has walked for the runway YSL and Louis Vuitton and scored a campaign with Mercedes Benz in Nov. 2021. He is also a musician who goes by the name Crazy Mike Spotify. Meanwhile, his younger sister is an aspiring actress who made her debut in the 2021 film teenage emotions. She is also an activist focused on women’s rights and security.