‘I thought he was an only child’: Will Smith fans do a double take after he posted photos of himself and his rarely-seen siblings

Just when people thought they knew every part about Will Smith, he dropped a bombshell: he revealed that he was the oldest brother of a brother and a gang of sisters.

Based on his hit comedy series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, most individuals assumed he was an only child and was only accompanied by 4 fictional cousins. But nothing could possibly be farther from the reality.

While celebrating National Siblings Day earlier this week, the actor apparently recreated a childhood photo of himself, his mother Caroline Bright (formerly Smith), his brother Harry Smith (53), Harry’s sister Ellen, 53, and the collective’s older sister, Pam Smith. 60.

The before and now post has received 1,221,606 likes and counting. The Smith sisters are all beaming with comfortable smiles, identical to the movie star. His brother, a Hampton University graduate, also seemed crammed with joy. Will be with subtitles is: “Now and then with my family members #InternationalSiblingsDay.”

Ellen jumped into the comments and wrote, “Oh I love this. We look like one hell of a box of chocolates! Hello everyone. Fam Bam, what good?!”

The first photo is a black and white film, vividly showing the whole spectrum of shades that flow into in his immediate family. The second one Will sent for National Siblings Day 2023, it’s colourful and shows a family posing in front of a Spiderman-themed city mural.

“A few years ago I didn’t even know Will Smith had siblings, lol, I thought he was an only child, like a new prince,” wrote one of the individuals who noticed the photos in X.

One fan wrote: “One thing black people will do is barely get old lol we are getting old.” Another noted that the whole family was aging gracefully and wrote: “Damn, they all look exactly the same!”

Most of Will’s comment sections were a flood of Portuguese remarks.

While it gave the impression of Americans were boycotting the actor over the past few years following his infamous Oscars slap, his popularity in Brazil has skyrocketed. Will, an actor and rapper, is claimed to be one of the celebrities of the one “Live It Up”, which became the official song of the 2018 World Cup.

Produced by American DJ and songwriter Diplo, American-born rapper Nicky Jam and Albanian singer Era Istrefi joined Will to sing the anthem, which continues to be one of the most well-liked songs at sporting events within the country.

Not featured on this yr’s National Siblings Day are two sisters who didn’t grow up with Will in Philadelphia’s Wynnefield neighborhood. Another sister named Pam is missing, in addition to a younger sister named Ashley Marie Pettway Smith, born to a woman after the “Independence Day” rapper’s parents divorced. According to his memoirs, “Will”, the celebrity has two sisters named Pam, who come from his parents from previous marriages.

Many people may not know that Will’s real name is Willard and that he is a junior named after his father, Willard Smith Sr., a small business owner who ran an ice delivery company. He and his siblings affectionately called their hardworking and demanding father “Daddio”.

Daddio and Bright separated when Will was 13 and were legally divorced in 2000. In his 2021 memoir, the Oscar winner states that his father, who died in 2016 after battling cancer, was physically abusive to his mother. He said that when he was 9, he witnessed Daddio hit his mother “on the side of the head so hard she fell.”

Will at all times stood by his mother.

This is not the primary time Will has posted about his siblings. A couple of of them are at all times hiding in plain sight.

During Easter, Fr common a photo during which the twins and mama mama (Bright’s nickname) swarmed around family members, including Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, Jaden Smith, grandmother Adrienne Banfield-Norris (aka Gammy), Will’s oldest, Tre Smith, and Tre’s mother, his ex -wife, Sheree Zampino.

‘I thought he was an only child’: Will Smith fans do a double take after he posted photos of himself and his rarely-seen siblings