Laura Dern Shares unusual picture With Daughter Jaya on 18th Birthday

A proud mama bear! Laura Dern took to social media to have a good time daughter Jaya’s 18th birthday with a touching tribute.

“My woman is eighteen as we communicate!!! Happiest birthday, Jaya!” Dern, fifty five, wrote through Instagram on Tuesday, November 29. “You prepare me daily about what it means to be an honest and profound empath, artist, and activist. i like you with all the pieces.”

The submit, which included a carousel of pictures of Jaya over time, additionally featured a latest snap of the massive Little Lies alum and her youngest smiling for the digicam.

This marks the second time this yr Dern has given a shout-out to her daughter, whom she shares with ex-husband Ben Harper. Earlier this fall, the Jurassic Park star honored Jaya for nationwide Daughter’s Day.

“comfortable Daughters Day to my woman. My coronary heart,” Dern wrote through Instagram in September alongside two footage of herself with Jaya as a baby. “you are in all likelihood the most inspiring particular person, and what an honor to be your mom!”

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whereas the Oscar winner and Jaya have shaped a deep mom-daughter bond over time, Dern stays to be steadfast about making her daughter maintain off earlier than following in her footsteps.

“I’m primarily making her wait,” the Blue Velvet actress said all through an look on the Ellen DeGeneres current in March. “i started very youthful at eleven and am so comfortable she’s ready and desirous to go to highschool [even though] she is aware of in her coronary heart she desires to behave. … She does usually say, ‘You didn’t wait.’”

The California native went on to clarify that she “pushed” her dad and mom, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern, to let her act at a youthful age and “compelled” her profession on them. “I noticed the implications of not being in school, simply doing my factor,” the Marriage Story star said on the time.

Dern and Harper, fifty three, who additionally share 20-yr-outdated son Ellery, had been married for eight years earlier than calling it quits in 2013. The Wild star has since gotten candid about how single parenting has been a “traumatic” endeavor.

“On good days, i am type ample to maintain in thoughts that there are rising pains, and it is all overwhelming and by no means simple or always nice,” the Emmy winner advised trendy luxurious in August 2019. “On the onerous days … there may even be an extreme quantity of occurring — and it may be onerous to carve out a minute for your self. i’ve by no means had anyone else bully me in my single parenting life.”

Three months prior, nonetheless, Dern opened as a lot as InStyle with regard to the silver lining of being a single mom — collectively with the biggest means it has made her extra bold.

“elevating kids gave me ample road cred to really feel like I deserved the biggest to earn a dwelling,” the Enlightened alum defined. “This second in my life is so sexy and releasing as a consequence of I’ve had many relationships, I’ve had a marriage ceremony, i’ve my fantastic kids, so I’m not hiding who i am to get somebody who’s eager to have kids or be married.”

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