Gaby, 29, who is an exclusive model for the fashion magazine “JJ,” has an American mother who was separated from her when she was five years old. We closely followed Gaby and her mother’s reunion after 24 years. Gaby grew up with a Japanese father, an American mother, and an older sister, and moved to Fukuoka Prefecture from the U.S. when she was 4 years old.
Promised to “come back.
Gabby: “The one thing I remember about my mom is when she braided my hair. It’s still there in pictures, and all the hair styles were different. If I moved even a little bit, she would put it back.” ━How did your mother look when she was braiding your hair? Gabby: “Actually, (my mom) was angry the whole time. I thought her expression was pained. （All of her faces (that I remember) looked pained. I don’t remember her smiling much.” After moving to Japan for about a year……, the separation from her mother was sudden. Gaby: “It was close to Christmas. Gaby: “It was close to Christmas. She said, ‘I’m going back [to the U.S.] to get my driver’s license,’ but for some reason she was crying. Gabby: “She said, ‘I’m definitely coming back.’ I cried, ‘I’ll go with you.’ “I’ll come back,” her mother promised, and was never seen again. After that, he married again, this time to a Japanese woman. Gaby: “Why did you have to leave? Gaby: “I don’t know. I never even asked my father. I felt bad to say such a thing to my father who raised me. I can imagine him saying, ‘I’m sorry I didn’t make it,’ and I can imagine him saying, ‘No, that’s not what it’s about. I have respect for my father, so I never want to talk about it.”
The sudden DM left him perplexed: “What’s going on all of a sudden? and perplexed.
Gaby did not feel at home with her stepmother, and at the age of 16 she moved to Tokyo to pursue her dream of becoming a model. After that, she became estranged from her family. As the months passed, when she was 20 years old and working as a model, she received a sudden call from her birth mother. Gaby said, “I received an Instagram DM just as I turned 20. I think it was seeing me modeling on Instagram. ‘I think about you every day and wish you nothing but happiness and success. My purpose in life was to give birth to you. I look forward to watching you grow up.'” A message from a loving mother …… but Gabby couldn’t accept it. Gabby said, “What is this all of a sudden? I was too confused to respond. I couldn’t accept the love that my mother had accumulated, saying, ‘I love you. I felt like I was finally free after going to Tokyo, so I couldn’t afford to do it if I became tied down by my mother.” So why did she decide to come see him at this time?