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- LeBron James and his wife Savannah celebrated 12 years of marriage on Sunday, Sept. 14
- The NBA star posted a photo of his wife at their anniversary dinner and wrote, “Happy anniversary my beautiful” with emojis of a queen and a butterfly
- LeBron and Savannah, high school sweethearts from Akron, Ohio, share three children: Bronny, Bryce and Zhuri
LeBron James is celebrating 12 years with his wife Savannah!
The NBA star, 40, marked a dozen years married to his high school sweetheart on Sunday, Sept. 14 with a sweet post in her honor.
LeBron shared a photo of Savannah, 39, at a romantic anniversary dinner and tagged her account, adding a handful of heart eye emojis and brown hearts. He wrote, “Happy anniversary my beautiful,” with a queen and butterfly emoji and added, “I love you mama!” with an infinity emoji.
The Lakers star, who appears to have an affinity for emojis, shares three kids with Savannah: “Bronny” James Jr., 20, and Bryce Maximus, 18, and Zhuri Nova, 10.
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The couple’s anniversary comes just after they joined Bryce and Bronny in getting matching “family” tattoos with celebrity tattoo artist Joaquin Ganga of Ganga Tattoo Studio in L.A.
Celebrating their anniversary in 2021, LeBron said he would be “absolutely nothing” without his queen in his corner in his Instagram post. Two years later, Savannah said in her cover story for The Cut that it’s “very nice” of her husband to see her contributions to their family.
“It’s very nice to hear that the sacrifices that you’ve made and the work that you’ve put into making sure that our children are raised properly and that he has a stable environment that’s full of love and good vibes and all the things — it’s a testament to be told that,” the mother of three said. “I think it’s a testament to myself to be like, ‘Yeah, thank you. I did that.'”
In April 2024, Savannah, who had long remained away from the spotlight as her husband became the NBA legend he is today, launched her podcast Everybody’s Crazy with longtime friend April McDaniel. Together, they field calls from fans and offer advice about “crazy” situations.
“It’s freeing because it allows me to show a side of my personality,” the mom of three told PEOPLE at the time. “We are both very private and I’ve been very private and kind of played the background this far in my husband’s career. But I am excited to venture off into new things, we’re going into new phases of our lives.”