If you’ve got ever learn Ali Wong’s 2019 guide “Dear Girls” or watched one in every of her Netflix comedy specials, then you definately’re in all probability acquainted with her two daughters, Mari and Nikki. The comic and “Beef” star shares each kiddos along with her ex-husband, businessman Justin Hakuta, whom she break up from in 2022 after eight years of marriage.
For Wong, there is not any such factor as oversharing, particularly as a comic book, however in the case of her youngsters, that is the place she attracts the road. Like numerous different celeb mother and father, she and her ex-husband have kept away from sharing private particulars about their youngsters, together with their faces, on social media. Thanks to filters, although, Wong would beforehand put up cute household photographs and dance events along with her ladies of their front room on Instagram. However, it appears she’s since wiped most of her web page clear of her youngsters, aside from a foolish video she posted with one in every of them in December 2019.
While juggling mother life and work life will be difficult, Wong has discovered a solution to bridge the 2 collectively. And she even wrote a guide devoted to them that was impressed by a letter her dad wrote her earlier than he handed. “With my ladies, they solely know me after I filmed these specials with them in utero,” she mentioned on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in October 2019, including, “They do not know every little thing I went by way of to get to the place I’m and I believe that is actually necessary.”
Elsewhere, Wong is elevating her daughters to have fun and be happy with their Asian heritage. “Very proud to be elevating my daughters round all of those artistic and soulful Asian Americans,” she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram put up. “I would like them to develop up with a robust sense of satisfaction and know that individuals who seem like us are able to a lot.”
Ahead, get to know Wong’s ladies, Mari and Nikki.