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Lauren Sánchez Bezos shared a special moment that her kids surprised her with during her wedding to Jeff Bezos last summer in a March 3 interview.
Sánchez Bezos got married to the Amazon founder during a $50 million star-studded ceremony in Venice.
The The Fly Who Flew Under the Sea author shares son Nikko, 25, with ex-boyfriend Tony Gonzalez, as well as son Evan, 19, and daughter Ella, 18, with her ex-husband Patrick Whitesell.
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos’s wedding last summer was a lavish, $50 million affair, with an A-list guest list full of celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, and Leonardo DiCaprio, a dreamy Venice destination, and not one, but three different wedding dresses. The star-studded attendees notwithstanding, Sánchez Bezos revealed that a special moment with her three kids stood out as the highlight of the three-day celebration.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez attend the amfAR gala Cannes 2025 presented by Chopard at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 22, 2025 in Cap d’Antibes, France
While making an appearance on Today on March 3, the children’s book author—who was promoting her second book The Fly Who Flew Under the Sea—opened up about what she called the “most meaningful and impactful moment” during her wedding with one of her sons, who she revealed also has dyslexia. Sánchez Bezos shares son Nikko, 25, with ex-boyfriend Tony Gonzalez, as well as son Evan, 19, and daughter Ella, 18, with her ex-husband Patrick Whitesell.
Nikko Gonzalez and Lauren Sanchez arrive at Forbes Power Women’s Summit 2024 on September 11, 2024 in New York City
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Sánchez Bezos recalled both her and Bezos’s kids getting up to do surprise speeches for their parents, sharing, “One of my kids, who is dyslexic—and he lets me talk about it—went up there and talked about a moment that was extremely important to him.” While she “had no idea what he was going to say” at the time, her son opened up about a meaningful childhood memory that he shared with his mom during the ceremony.
Lauren Sanchez Bezos and her son Evan
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“He was in the fourth grade and not writing well and he wrote this sentence that says, ‘I can do this.” And it was his first sentence. And that’s really late to be writing your first sentence as any parent with a kid with dyslexia knows,” Sánchez Bezos explained. “I blew it up and I put it in our kitchen, and it says, ‘I can do this.’ Anyway, he talked about how special that moment was for him.”
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