Sandra Bullock celebrates her first Mother’s Day on social media.
On Sunday, May 10, the Oscar-winning actress took to her newly created Instagram account to share a tribute to all mothers — including her own late mother Helga Meyer — marking her first-ever Mother’s Day social media post since joining the platform last month.
“To all moms… No matter how you came to be, Happy Mother’s Day,” Bullock, 61, wrote in the caption. “We are all bound by this honor for life,” she added.
Bullock shared a photo of her late grandmother, who she affectionately calls Omi – the German word for grandmother. She also shared a throwback photograph of her late mother with Bullock and her younger sister Gesine as toddlers. The famous sisters’ mother died of colon cancer at the age of 58 due to colon cancer.
The Blind Side the actress continued in her caption: “Mom and Omi, thanks for teaching me. We miss you… Sorry I was such a brat.”
Finally, Bullock also shared a rare throwback photo of her own children, Louis Bardo Bullock, 16, and Laila Bullock, 11 — both of whom Bullock adopted.
The Miss Congeniality star has previously opened up about becoming a mother in her 40s. “I don’t know why it was the only way, but I’m so glad the universe let me wait,” she said on Red Table Talk in 2022. “Let me wait, even though I was anxious and I was eager — and it was like, ‘No, you’re not going to do it the way you think you’re going to do it.’
