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Dwyane Wade Dedicates NAACP Image Awards Speech to Daughter Zaya
Zaya Wade's runway debut was très chic.
The 15-year-old walked successful Miu Miu's Paris Fashion Week amusement connected March 7, hitting the catwalk successful an olive greenish formal and matching blazer. A brownish container and coordinating heels rounded retired her ensemble.
Of course, her begetter Dwyane Wade and stepmom Gabrielle Union were cheering her connected from the beforehand row. The erstwhile Miami Heat subordinate proudly posted footage of his girl modeling successful the Fall-Winter 2023 presentation to Instagram aboriginal that day, writing, "I'm not crying, you are." Dwyane besides posted a video of himself giving the teen a large hug.
And adjacent though Zaya's large member Zaire Wade, 21, couldn't beryllium determination in-person, helium made his enactment for her large manner infinitesimal clear—complete with a small sibling teasing. Underneath Zaya's March 7 Instagram station astir the event, Zaire wrote, "If I was successful the crowd, your forsure gonna interruption that look & laugh."
Zaya wasn't the lone prima successful the amusement as Emma Corrin, Mia Goth, Ethel Cain and Amelia Gray Hamlin besides walked the runway. In addition, Brooklyn Beckham, Nicola Peltz, Dianna Agron, Ziwe and Poppy Delevingne were among the celebrities to presumption the presentation.
While this is Zaya's archetypal runway show, she's nary alien to the modeling scene. In fact, she's appeared successful marque campaigns before, including for PUMA successful February. She's besides shown disconnected her emotion of manner connected societal media. No substance the occasion—be it a fashion show, a red carpet event, a winter formal oregon conscionable a twinning infinitesimal astatine location with Gabrielle—she loves to springiness her followers a glimpse astatine her fabulous ensembles.
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Zaya besides uses her dependable to assistance others, similar erstwhile she appeared successful the Dove Self-Esteem Project past May and spoke retired against online hate.
"As a trans person, once I came out, determination was a batch of hateful comments astir however I should turn my hairsbreadth retired agelong oregon acceptable into a definite mentation of femininity, adjacent though that's not existent astatine all," she told People astatine the time. "That benignant of proposal is conscionable trying to interruption you, but don't fto it."
And Dwyane—who is besides dada to girl Kaavia, 4, and lad Xavier, 9—is truthful arrogant of his eldest daughter.
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"Zaya, you've made maine a amended quality conscionable simply by being who you were calved to be," helium said astatine the 2023 NAACP Image Awards successful February, "our babe girl, Zaya Wade."
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