Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union Celebrate Daughter Zaya's High School Graduation

The couple coordinated with the graduate with black and white looks.

The Gist

• Dwayne Wade celebrated his daughter Zaya Wade's high school graduation alongside his wife Gabrielle Union.
• Zaya is a budding model and influencer.
• Union recently shared a touching tribute to her step-daughter marking her 18th birthday.

Dwayne Wade is celebrating his daughter Zaya's high school graduation with wife Gabrielle Union—and the family couldn't be cuter. The former NBA star and the actress wore all-black looks to attend Zaya's graduation from Campbell Hall in Los Angeles on June 11. Zaya wore a black and white dress under her blue cap and gown, coordinating with her father and step-mother.

Zaya was born in 2007 to Dwayne and his wife at the time, Siohvaughn Funches. The pair finalized their divorce that year. Dwayne and Union also met that same year while co-hosting the Super Bowl, but didn't appear together again as a couple until 2010. They married in 2014.

Zaya came out as transgender in 2020 at the age of 12. Since then, her parents have been endlessly supportive and she has gone onto become an influencer and model, even making her runway debut in 2023 at Miu Miu's fall 2023 ready-to-wear show during Paris Fashion Week.

Last week, Union shared a sweet message to her step-daughter on Instagram just a few days after her 18th birthday. "Your transparency should be studied. @zayawade," she wrote next to a picture of Zaya, Dwayne, and Union at an event. "They say parents are the ones to raise and show their children 'the way', but you’ve been the one to show us what true strength, vulnerability, and love really look like. At just 18, you’ve already shown the world what it means to be brave. Your courage lights the way for so many to follow, and we’re right beside you every step of the way."

Last year, Zaya spoke to Seventeen about her life as the teenage daughter of such famous parents. "I could lie and say we’re just trying to get into college, but we’re high school girls," she said. "'Dating' is an aggressive term though. In Gen Z, situationships are king." She added that Dwyane and Union are "super cool" with her dating. She added, "Me and my stepmom love to dish the dirt and tap into the high school gossip. She gets excited for me when I'm like, 'Oh, I like this person.'"