It is a marriage that will long remain etched in the memory of Joakim Noah and Lais Ribeiro and their many guests. For more than a week, the former basketball player and his wife organized superb festivities in Brazil, in the native region of the sublime 32-year-old brunette. A week of celebration in which his loved ones obviously participated, starting with his father Yannick Noah and his many children, who did not hesitate to share the good times of this wonderful moment on Instagram.
A beautiful story that began in November 2018, when Joakim Noah and Lais Ribeiro formalized their relationship, but before that the Brazilian model was in a relationship for several years with another basketball player, proof that she loves men very great! What is less known is that she was also the mother at only 18 years old, of a young boy with autism. She recently confided in this maternity like no other in the pages of the Brazilian magazine Veja. “I decided it would be important to make part of my story publicto inspire others facing similar conditions”she says to explain her approach in the introduction.
There is still a lot of prejudice and misinformation around this issue
Mom very close to her young boy, 14 years old and called Alexandre, Lais Ribeiro wants to make progress for people with autism. “There is still a lot of prejudice and misinformation around this issue and I know how difficult it is to deal with. Despite all the challenges Alexander has to overcome, I can say thattoday, it is I who learn from him every day”she confides, before recounting this pivotal period of her life: “I became a mother very early, at 18. I intended to be a nurse, but my life changed completely when I participated in a modeling competition in São Paulo”.