Lori Loughlin’s two daughters Isabella and Olivia Jade spoke out on Sunday to pay tribute to her on her first Mother’s Day since being released from prison back in December.
“You are the best. period,” Olivia Jade, 21, posted on Instagram alongside a throwback photo of Loughlin.
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“Mama Bear,” Isabella, 22, simply wrote alongside camera film stills of herself, her sister, and her mother.
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Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli pled guilty last year to charges related to them allegedly paying $500,000 in bribe money to have their two daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as members of the crew team, even though neither girl had ever rowed before. Loughlin served two months in prison, and was released at the end of December, while Giannulli served five months and was released earlier in April.
Yahoo News reported that back in December, Olivia Jade defended her parents as “good people.”
“I’m not trying to victimize myself,” she said. “I don’t want pity, I don’t deserve pity. We messed up.”
“I think that what hasn’t been super public is that there is no justifying or excusing what happened because what happened is wrong. I think every single person in my family can be like, ‘That was messed up. That was a big mistake,'” Olivia Jade added. “But I think what’s so important to me is to learn from the mistake, not to now be shamed and punished and never be given a second chance. I’m 21, I feel like I deserve a second chance to redeem myself, to show I’ve grown.”
Back in March, Olivia Jade opened up about what it is like to be “publicly shamed.”
“I think we’re all very quick to judge,” the beauty blogger said. “I think we’re all very quick to put people down. And I just want people to remember, if your feelings are hurting, if they’re valid to you, they’re valid. And it doesn’t matter if someone is going through worse. You’re allowed to have a hard time in this world. But that doesn’t take away from somebody else, and that shouldn’t take away from you. We’re all human beings.”
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