Simon's oldest son, Quentin, is going to walk him down the aisle," Williams told People, explaining how the weekend-long celebration was a family affair.Watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo Sundays at 8/7c and next day on Peacock. Our sons, Christian and Benjamin, are going to walk my grandmother down the aisle. “Our daughter, Ximena, is going be a junior bridesmaid. Williams’ daughter, Pilar, who she shares with her ex Dennis McKinley, and her niece Baleigh were flower girls. “I think we found one.”Īt Guobadia and Williams’ wedding in November 2022, almost all of their children were involved in the ceremony. “The fun part about fatherhood is when you can find activities you can share with your daughter,” he captioned an Instagram photo of them getting pedicures in June. Among the father-daughter duo’s favorite pastimes are spa days. In December 2018, for example, he shared that she and Ximena took him out to dinner to celebrate Christmas. Guobadia appears to have an amicable relationship with Andrade-Rivera. “She’s multiracial with curly hair, and that will always set her apart,” Connie, who was 29 at the time, said of her and Guobadia’s daughter. Andrade-Rivera, a plus-size model, credited her Latin heritage for teaching her to “embrace her curves from a young age” and said she hoped to instill that self-love in Ximena. “Benjamin on the other hand is very smart, and does not know it because we still building his confidence level to express himself more when in fact he knows more than he is letting on.”Īt three years old, Guobadia’s youngest daughter, Ximena, appeared with her mom Connie Andrade-Rivera in a Redbook fashion makeover package published in 2016. “For fun, Christian at age 11 is building complex Lego sets for age 16+ with 6,000 pieces and up, leading me to believe he may be suited for an engineering or architectural program in the near future,” Simon wrote of his son on Instagram in July. While studying at Hofstra University as an undergrad, Quentin’s short film Killearned multiple awards and showed at the 2019 Buffalo International Film Festival.Īlthough it’s unclear who Guobadia shares sons Christian and Benjamin with, the two boys frequently travel the world in their dad’s private jet. Ironically enough, Quentin, like his namesake, has pursued a film career and is studying for his master’s in cinematography and film/video production at Brooklyn College. “But I am learning,” he wrote.ĭespite his reported estrangement from Nicole, Guobadia wrote that he has felt like a “new dad” with his firstborn, Quentin, who he named after Quentin Tarantino. “I am overwhelmed at the fact that I have missed much in their daily growth,” he captioned a March 2021 post, noting that he hopes he can “can continue to get closer to and travel more with them.” A month later, Guobadia also admitted that he has “not always” shown his “five gifted children” the individual attention they deserve. Guobadia, for his part, has implied that he wasn’t always the hands-on father his Instagram portrays him as now. Nicole is reportedly still close with her mom and brother Quentin. English earned an MFA in fashion design while “having two teenagers and surviving them,” and now works as a college professor at the Art Institute of Atlanta. However, there’s still a post from June 2020 up on Guobadia’s Facebook page in which he sent “hearty congratulations” to Nicole for graduating with a computer science degree, adding that she had “made the family very proud.”Īccording to The Sunday Omony Show, Nicole’s mother is Simon’s first wife, Karron English, to whom he was married for 20 years. According to a July episode of The Sunday Omony Show, Nicole, a STEM PhD candidate at the University of Washington Tacoma, has “nothing to do with” Guobadia, who allegedly deleted all photos of her from his Instagram. Noticeably absent from the post - and his Instagram as a whole - is Guobadia’s first-born daughter and second-eldest child, Nicole. “We cannot speak about legacy without speaking about our children. “For those who know me well, know children hold a special place in my heart,” Simon captioned a June 2021 Father’s Day post spotlighting his kids, Quentin, 26, Christian, 12, Benjamin, 11, and Ximena, 10. Guobadia hasn’t discussed his children or ex-wives much in the media, but his Instagram page is filled with tributes to his kids. (He and his most recent ex-wife, Falynn Pina, never had any biological children together). What fans may not know, however, is that Simon already has five children of his own from two of his previous three marriages. When Simon Guobadia married the Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Porsha Williams, he become stepfather to her 3-year-old daughter Pilar.
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