Simply when individuals thought they knew every part 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 could possibly 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 Brilliant (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 acquired 1,221,606 likes and counting. The Smith sisters all beam with full completely satisfied smiles together with the film star. His brother, who graduated from Hampton College, additionally appeared 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 to be a dope a** field of candies! Hey y’all. Fam Bam what’s good?!!”
The primary image is a black-and-white flick, vividly displaying the spectrum of shades that run via his quick household. The second, which Will posted for 2023’s Nationwide Siblings Day, is in colour and exhibits the household posing in entrance of a Spiderman-themed mural of the town.
“I ain’t even know till a couple 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 couple 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 ageing gracefully writing, “Dang, everyone seems precisely the identical!”
The vast majority of Will’s feedback part was a flood of Portuguese remarks.
Whereas People appeared 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 likely one of 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 response to his memoir “Will,” the celeb has two sisters named Pam, born to his dad and mom from earlier marriages.
Many could not know that Will’s actual title 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 Brilliant 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 fighting most cancers, bodily abused his mom. He stated when he was 9 years outdated, he witnessed Daddio punch his mom “within the aspect of the top so laborious that she collapsed.”
Will has at all times stood by his mom’s aspect.
This isn’t the primary time that Will has posted his siblings. Just a few of them are at all times hiding in plain sight.
Throughout the Easter vacation, he shared an image the place the twins and Mother Mother (Brilliant’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.
