JoJo Siwa, Jason Momoa & More Share What They're Thankful For

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When the slap comes. When the stars split. When Keanu's sad. We simply retrieve our favourite things and past we don't consciousness soooooo baaaaaad. 

And we're not unsocial successful embracing the crushed for the season. Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, we asked a slew of stars what they're thankful for successful 2022 and they brought heaping portions of gratitude to the table. From Caelynn Miller-Keyes' Hawaiian engagement to Adrienne Bailon-Houghton's tiny bundle of joy, these are the blessings your favourite celebs volition beryllium counting earlier settling successful for that nice tryptophan-induced nutrient coma. 

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Sarah Ferguson

While the Duchess of York apt won't beryllium carving into a turkey connected Nov. 24, she's a large instrumentality of some the vacation and the accidental to bespeak connected the blessings of the erstwhile months. "I'm truthful deeply, profoundly grateful for the magnitude of wonderful, incredibly courageous children that I met this year," the royal told E! News. Having traveled to Poland, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie's mom got to cognize the refugees who'd escaped from the warfare successful their autochthonal Ukraine. "They conscionable person the volition and they person the strength and they person the peacefulness successful their hearts due to the fact that they privation a amended aboriginal for themselves," she marveled. "And they privation to spell backmost to the Ukraine and they privation to physique again. It inspires maine to support warring connected and to support believing successful the innocence and the goodness of children. 

Also connected her gratitude list: Her time with the precocious Queen Elizabeth II. "When I deliberation of the Queen," she shared. "I deliberation of beautiful, beauteous memories of strength, of leadership, of compassion, forgiveness and embracing what is genuinely close and good."

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Gabrielle Union

Turns retired the Strange World prima is thankful for the aforesaid things arsenic the remainder of us. "My family!" the histrion raved to E! News of husband Dwyane Wade and kids Dahveon, Zaire, Zaya, Xavier and Kaavia. "My household and bully health."

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Jason Momoa

While we're astir pleased astir Aquaman's, uh, cheeky consciousness of humor, he's giving acknowledgment for Nakoa-Wolf and Lola, his kids with ex Lisa Bonet. Asked what he's astir grateful for astatine his Slumberland premiere, the actor told E! News, "Oh my god, my family, my children, my daughter, my love, my small lovie and my lad who's a chaotic carnal and he's astir present somewhere." One limb wrapped astir Lola, helium continued, "My babies, my family. That's the astir important thing."

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Mickey Guyton

This Thanksgiving, the state vocalist is feeling particularly grateful for her small turkey. "Last twelvemonth astatine this time, helium astir died," she recalled to E! News of her 21-month-old lad Grayson, with husband Grant Savoy. "He had this truly atrocious tummy bug which turned into sepsis and dehydration." With that "awful" ICU stay present 12 months successful the rearview, "I'm truthful grateful for him," said the "I Still Pray" musician. "So, truthful grateful."

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Kristin Cavallari

If the remainder of her communicative is inactive unwritten, The Hills alum is gladsome for each twist and turn. For the past fewer years, the Uncommon James laminitis and ma of 3 has strived "to beryllium contiguous and experience everything that beingness has to offer—the good, the bad, the ugly," she told E! News, presumably including her divorce from erstwhile NFL QB Jay Cutler successful the mix. "I deliberation that with those uncomfortable moments comes a batch of maturation and truthful I'm really thankful for those opportunities."

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Kelly Rowland

Bringing that "Down for Whatever" vigor into 2023, the vocalist told E! News she's grateful for "my family, my health." But also, added the ma to 8-year-old Titan and 22-month-old Noah (with hubby Tim Weatherspoon), "Just possibilities of immoderate and everything."

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Jake Gyllenhaal

The Strange World prima knows each excessively good that he has it beauteous good. "I'm grateful for a lot," the L.A. autochthonal told E! News astatine the premiere for his animated Disney flick. "I'm grateful for each the opportunities I person and I'm grateful for the radical I emotion successful my beingness who emotion me." Yes, helium knows he's fundamentally saying he's #blessed, adding, "I cognize that sounds beauteous general, but I'm truthful grateful for it."

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Julianne Hough

Having made a marque caller commencement of it successful aged New York, the triple menace is thankful for the reception she's received from the Broadway community. "I was truthful welcomed and embraced coming here," she told E! News astatine the premiere of & Juliet of her tally successful the comedy POTUS. "I emotion reinvention. I americium doing a amusement present successful December and trying caller happening truthful I deliberation conscionable the thought that thing is possible!"

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Keke Palmer

Someone's serving up a heaping dose of position this vacation season. While promoting McCormick's brand-new spice kit called The TEN, the Nope actress told E! News, "I'm astir grateful for my health, the quality to bash each the things I emotion and determination freely successful the world. I deliberation the older I get, the much I recognize what is genuinely priceless successful life."

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Lana Condor

On the To All the Boys star's 2022 item reel: An excursion to Vietnam with Re:wild, a nonprofit biology conservation enactment dedicated to protecting and restoring wildlife. "It was the astir unthinkable travel ever," the newly engaged actress raved to E! News. "I was truthful beyond grateful due to the fact that not lone did I get to larn truthful overmuch astir speech efforts and autochthonal wildlife to the assorted regions we visited, but I got to beryllium backmost successful my location state and larn truthful overmuch much astir wherever I travel from. I americium conscionable truthful grateful for the acquisition and for gathering truthful galore astonishing people."

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Adrienne Bailon-Houghton

Who cares that the impermanent successful question hasn't yet mastered solids, the E! News co-host is stoked to adhd another place mounting to her Thanksgiving table. Prepped to carve the turkey again ("I big it each twelvemonth astatine my house," she said of her "favorite" holiday), Bailon-Houghton is feeling "thankful for truthful galore things," she told E! News. Topping that list: lad Ever James, who arrived successful August aft five-plus years of miscarriages and failed IVF cycles. "Since this twelvemonth is my archetypal twelvemonth arsenic a mom," she said, "I'm astir thankful for my babe boy."

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JoJo Siwa

All the Dance Moms alum wants for Christmas is girlfriend Avery Cyrus. "It's going to beryllium my archetypal Thanksgiving with a important other. It's going to beryllium my archetypal Christmas with a important other," she raved to E! News portion discussing her concern with Ocean Spray. "So I'm truly excited astir that." And she's feeling successful measurement with everyone connected her (dance) team. "I consciousness similar this year-slash-right present is the champion radical that I've ever had astir me," she noted. As a result, said the multihyphenate, "I consciousness similar this twelvemonth I've truly grown into who I truly americium and I deliberation that's truly peculiar and thing that's not easy. And truthful I'm thankful to the beingness for aligning for that to beryllium possible."

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Violetta Komysha

For the dancer, the high, uh, pointe of 2022 is "getting to bash what I emotion everyday, which is ballet," she told E! News, "and that's precise overmuch connected to being healthy, healing from insignificant injuries and having the assets and entree to things that assistance you instrumentality attraction of yourself." But she's besides grateful for the quality to bust retired of her ballet slippers each erstwhile successful awhile. Stylist Yael Quint "came into my beingness and changed my full mentality astir manner and however I dress," Komysha shared. "She's like, 'This is what I privation you to look like.' And she's conscionable phenomenal. She's truly inspired maine and changed maine successful the champion way."

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Tyler Cameron

Who gets The Bachelorette alum's metaphorical rose? "I person a agelong list," helium admitted to E! News portion discussing his Amazon acquisition picks. "I'll commencement with my family. I'm thankful for each that we've been done and however we've been capable to instrumentality unneurotic and navigate each these waters together." Though they've suffered loss—most notably the 2020 death of his ma Andrea Cameron—"We've besides had immoderate large moments unneurotic and conscionable to beryllium capable to spell done this full travel with them is thing I'm grateful for." And having experienced the worst, he's other appreciative of those that inactive situation him, including friends and everyone he's worked with. "Those tin beryllium things that we instrumentality for granted truthful easily," helium said. "Then, thing tin hap unexpectedly."

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Chloe Bailey

Hurdles? Bring 'em on. "I would person to accidental that I'm truly grateful for immoderate disappointment oregon thing that I felt was a setback," the musician revealed to E! News, "because it has conscionable made maine into the idiosyncratic that I support praying each time I crook into." Not that she wasn't singing the blues successful the moment. "Everything feels truthful dense sometimes," Bailey acknowledged while discussing her caller American Express partnership, "but erstwhile you fast-forward a mates of months, you're similar 'Oh wow, I was determination and look astatine maine here.' Sometimes I person to spell done the disappointments truthful that I tin get to the different side." 

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Caelynn Miller-Keyes

Why, yes, the Bachelor alum is grateful that emotion Dean Unglert pulled disconnected the most dramatic connection ever connected the seashore of Hawaii's Kauai island. "It's astir apt cliché, but since I conscionable got engaged, I'm decidedly thankful for Dean and conscionable excited for this section successful our lives," the big of the caller iHeartRadio podcast True Crime Reality told E! News. "I'm excited to beryllium a fiancée and excited to walk the remainder of my beingness with him."

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Kevin Richardson

Backstreet's back, each right. And Richardson said helium and his bandmates are appreciative of the accidental to stone their bodies erstwhile much connected their 2023 DNA World Tour. "Being successful beforehand of people, seeing the smiles, feeling the energy, it has been a beauteous gift," helium told E! News portion discussing the group's vacation collaboration with MeUndies. And they're thrilled to beryllium capable wrapper thing up for their fans. "We're truly excited to person a vacation album," helium noted, "that that tin hopefully beryllium a portion of a batch of people's Christmas traditions moving forward."

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Teresa Giudice

The newlywed is truthful flippin' blessed that a agelong agone psychic speechmaking proved to beryllium spot-on. Chatting with E! News astatine the Rose Box store successful NYC, The Real Housewives of New Jersey prima said she was "thankful" for husband of three months Luis "Louie" Ruelas, daughters Gia, GabriellaMilania and Audriana and the easiness astatine which they blended their families. "I person 2 stepsons that I'm truthful grateful for," said Giudice. "It's truthful brainsick due to the fact that a psychic told maine a portion agone that I was going to person a lad and present I person two." 

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Anitta

To the Brazilian singer, parents Míriam Macedo and Mauro Machado are simply the best. "I'm grateful for the household I person and the mode they raised maine truthful I could spell done this full process of creating, innovating," the Grammy's Best New Artist nominee raved to E! News up of being named the apical euphony innovator astatine WSJ. Magazine's Innovator Awards. "I'm grateful for my parents."

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Christine Chiu

For the Bling Empire star, Dr. Gabriel Chiu is the cleanable antidote to any show drama. "I'm truthful grateful for my husband," the world prima told E! News at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital Party On The Pier. Referencing 1 on-camera confrontation that saw the integrative surgeon supply backup, she noted, "I don't usually spot him lasting up for me. He usually does it down the scenes, but connected the amusement helium truly like, got successful there, and I was like, 'Whoa, that's benignant of sexy.' After being joined for 16 years, it's truly bully to spot your hubby rip disconnected his mic erstwhile idiosyncratic is bullying you."

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Crystal Kung Minkoff

Chiu's adjacent person likewise feels the emotion from filmmaker spouse Rob Minkoff. At the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital fete, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills prima told E! News she was "thankful for my incredibly supportive husband" and their kids Zoe and Max. With 2 seasons of the addictive Bravo bid under her decorator belt, she admitted, "Doing the amusement has been a caller escapade for our household and they are conscionable the astir positive, supportive radical ever and truthful I'm grateful."

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Cheryl Burke

She whitethorn person said goodbye to 1 spouse successful 2022, ending a three-marriage to Matthew Lawrence, but Burke's creation paper isn't precisely empty. Though she's completed her last rotation done the ballroom, "I'm grateful for Dancing With the Stars conscionable arsenic a whole," she told E! News astatine the IMARAïS Beauty by Sommer Ray x FLIP motorboat party. "I'm grateful for my household and friends who person stuck by maine done a twelvemonth that I'm not gonna accidental ups and downs, but I'll accidental ups and learning experiences due to the fact that it's been a immense acquisition and thing that I'll ne'er forget. But you cognize who your friends are."

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Kim Zolciak-Biermann & Kroy Biermann

The world stars aren't astir to beryllium tardy for the gratitude party. While The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum told E! News she's thankful for "my household and our health," her husband chimed successful with a third. "I mightiness conscionable adhd our continued freedom," helium noted. "You're escaped to marque your ain choices and escaped to wed who you privation to marry, escaped to bash what you privation with your beingness and wherever you privation to spell and each those things and I deliberation that we sometimes instrumentality for granted those choices successful our life." 

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Lainey Wilson

She's got a bosom similar a truck, it's been cause done the mud. But it's besides afloat of gratitude, the country vocalist confessed to E! News, sharing how dad Brian Wilson "got truly sick" this summer. A July fungal corruption led to a stroke, 9 surgeries that included removing an oculus and bones successful his look and immoderate beauteous scary nights. "We thought we were going to suffer him determination for a minute," admitted the CMA's New Artist of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. "He ended up pulling retired of it. He was successful ICU for 2 months and warring for his life. I'm truthful thankful that we inactive person my daddy."

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Terry Crews

Two years aft wife Rebecca King-Crews' palmy conflict with bosom cancer, the Terry's Crew author is inactive counting that particular blessing. Following a double mastectomy in March 2020—just days earlier the satellite unopen down—the vocalist "is 100 percent crab escaped and I americium truthful thankful, conscionable beyond thankful, that it was diagnosed aboriginal and she was proactive and she's here," the histrion raved to E! News. "She's happy. She's healthy. I conscionable proceed to beryllium thankful for that each time and it's truthful beautiful."

—With reporting by Brody Brown, Marenah Dobin, Alyssa Morin, Sara Ouerfelli, Charles O'Keefe, Keri O'Keeffe, Isabelle Reich, Alex Ross, Jacqueline Uddo, Mike Vulpo & John Wood

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