THE STORIES WE CARRY

MEET GABRIELLA

What if the woman you see today is only one chapter of her story?

THE STORIES WE CARRY |Meet Gabriella!

This is Gabriella’s story, in her own words.

✨ HER STORY

My story began with leaving home.

As a teenager, I came to the United States alone from Australia to pursue my dream of becoming a professional tennis player. Leaving my family and everything familiar behind taught me independence, discipline, resilience, and how to keep going when things don’t go as planned.

Over the years, my life took many directions. I built a career, became a model, continued competing, and eventually became a wife and a mother.

Postpartum changed me in ways I hadn’t expected. My body changed, my priorities changed, and for a while, I struggled with the feeling that the woman I had been before motherhood was disappearing beneath a new identity.

I loved being a mother deeply, but I also realized that becoming a mother didn’t mean leaving the other parts of myself behind.

I still wanted to work - model, compete, and pursue the things that made me feel like myself. I wanted my daughter to grow up seeing that motherhood and ambition could coexist.

I’ve learned that we don’t have to choose between the different versions of ourselves. We can evolve while carrying the pieces of who we’ve always been.

Today, I’m a mother, an athlete, a model, a wife, and a woman still discovering what the next chapter holds.

We’re never finished becoming ourselves.

— Gabriella Bongiovanni
@_xoxogabriella

Gabriella is wearing the Infinite Grace Earrings by Sonji Gem Designs.

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