Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union are getting ready for Zaya’s next big step! On Sunday, the former NBA pro, 42, took to Instagram to share that he and the actress, 51, have kicked off “College Visits season” with their 16-year-old daughter.
Wade sweetly cemented the trio’s tour of the University of Washington in Seattle with an Instagram post featuring six slides of their adventure. The post documents their walk around campus, as the three of them enjoyed some of the greenery, architecture and study spaces the college has to offer.
The gallery starts off with a photo of Wade and Zaya smiling at the camera from under a UW purple umbrella, while another shot shows the teen posing between tables and shelves in Suzzallo Library.
A video shows Zaya wandering with Union beneath some of the blossoming cherry trees on the campus quad, while another features a visibly proud Wade and Union beaming as their tour guide speaks.
Wherever the teen decides to attend college, it’ll surely be an emotional ride to campus when it’s time. The two have been passionate supporters of their daughter’s every venture. From making her runway debut to becoming a social media influencer and LGBTQ+ activist, Wade and Union have been there cheering Zaya on.
When ET spoke with Union — who also shares 5-year-old Kaavia Jameswith Wade, as well as his 22-year-old son, Zaire, and 9-year-old son, Xavier — ahead of The Inspection premiere in 2022, the actress shared her approach to raising her daughters.
“Zaya’s still a child of this world and we try to create a loving safe bubble in our home, in her school and community with our extended family but she’s still a queer person in this country, in this world and she has to fight every day to be seen, to be loved, to be nurtured, to be thought of as worthy,” Union noted, adding that it’s a fight Zaya battles every day. “I’m glad that [fans get] a a snippet of the joy that exists but always know that it is a struggle, and she is not completely unlike Elegance in the sense of the yearning for loved ones to see them and love them completely without condition.”
When it comes to her youngest, Union shared that Kaavia has taught her “you can have all the wants and dreams for your children but they are who they are and it is your job to love them and guide them and and try to give them the world.”
“You’re not in control. Like, I wanna make sure she has good manners, she’s kind, she’s compassionate, she’s a student of the world and that she’s got a world perspective, but if she’s gonna be shady, she gonna be shady,” the mom joked. “If she wants to dress [in] full accessories to tennis it’s gonna happen… This is who she is.”
