What we found is that Vanessa Laine Bryant is of Mexican descent.
As per Pewresearch.org, “Mexican,” Hispanic” or “Latin American” is not as a race. It's an ethnicity. And it prescribes that they can in fact be of any race.
Vanessa (born Vanessa Cornejo Ubrieta) was born to Mexican parents, despite dozens of websites claiming that she is of part Irish descent. She adopted the surname “Laine” from her stepfather Stephen Laine.
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