{"id":376351,"date":"2025-12-29T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376351\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:36:09","slug":"wnba-star-skylar-diggins-calls-herself-gods-strongest-soldier-amid-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376351\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Skylar Diggins Calls Herself &#8216;God&#8217;s Strongest Soldier&#8217; Amid Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          WNBA Star Skylar Diggins<br \/>\n                          I&#8217;m Doing Everything By Myself!!!<br \/>\n                          &#8230; Just Me &amp; My Babies<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              December 29, 2025<br \/>\n                            9:24 AM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251229_721877c08e324cf0a886493a56402048\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7ec64cfe-2288-498b-9c2e-b039e0c773ae\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/721877c08e324cf0a886493a56402048_md.jpg\" alt=\"skylar-diggins-daniel-smith-getty-ig-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>WNBA star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/skylar-diggins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skylar Diggins<\/a> is reflecting on a drama-filled year &#8230; opening up about raising her kids all on her own for more than a year amid her divorce from Daniel Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Storm guard vented on her Instagram on Sunday &#8230; reflecting on the challenges she&#8217;s faced in 2025 &#8212; and expressing pride in how she was able to handle them mostly on her own.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251229_90f4b8042dc94675afb8cad8be2c6d1f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7ec64cfe-2288-498b-9c2e-b039e0c773ae\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/90f4b8042dc94675afb8cad8be2c6d1f_md.jpg\" alt=\"skylar diggins getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Been doing everything BY MYSLF (sic) for over a year now,&#8221; Diggins said. &#8220;Just me and my babies (and the help of my mom\/dad.) THAT&#8217;S IT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working, paying the bills, being a present mother and battling through a lot of unknowns&#8230; God&#8217;s strongest soldier 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251229_2c01da7be1314c068901fced013205d1\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7ec64cfe-2288-498b-9c2e-b039e0c773ae\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2c01da7be1314c068901fced013205d1_md.jpg\" alt=\"skylar-diggins-daniel-smith-sub-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diggins and the ex-Notre Dame football player got married back in April 2017 after meeting as athletes at the school. They have two kids together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/05\/01\/wnba-skylar-diggins-divorce\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">W<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/05\/01\/wnba-skylar-diggins-divorce\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">e broke the story<\/a> that she filed for a divorce in March &#8230; stating the couple split in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS\ud83d\uddde\ufe0f: Skylar Diggins- Smith now goes by just \u201cSkylar Diggins\u201d\ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p>Skylar told reporters to drop the \u201cSmith\u201d from her last name and address her as Skylar Diggins only\u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wnba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#wnba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/66U8CloKvj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/66U8CloKvj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Bucket Yard (@bucketyard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bucketyard\/status\/1917310854443241648?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 29, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bucketyard\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@bucketyard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seven-time WNBA All-Star first hinted she and Smith weren&#8217;t together anymore during a press conference &#8230; when she told reporters she dropped Smith from her last name.<\/p>\n<p>As for Smith, he went to Instagram as well recently &#8230; saying he&#8217;s &#8220;been <br \/>litigating, ordering and asking for custody since April 2025. Separation from my babies has never been okay with me&#8221; &#8212; adding he wished things would have been handled back in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily, I\u2019m a big guy and I\u2019ll be able to hold my babies for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The divorce is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Skylar Diggins I&#8217;m Doing Everything By Myself!!! &#8230; Just Me &amp; My Babies Published December 29,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3,99,2415,2525,434],"class_list":["post-376351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}