Happy birthday to Will Smith’s mother, Caroline Bright!

Will, 55, posted a vintage picture of himself and Caroline, now 87, laughing while lounging on a couch on Wednesday.“Mom-Mom, happy birthday! 87 today,” the actor wrote as the Instagram photo’s caption. “There’s nothing like laughing with your Mother. ️”

Caroline, a former member of the Philadelphia school board, is the mother of Will and his three siblings, Pamela, the older sister, and Harry and Ellen, the twins. Prior to their formal divorce in 2000, she was married to Will’s father, Willard Carroll Smith Sr., during Will’s adolescent years. Will had a tumultuous connection with Willard Sr., who passed away in 2016.

In recent years, Smith has made it a point to honor Caroline—whom he lovingly refers to as “Mom-Mom”—on Instagram. He posted a cute video of the two of them dancing to the Whitney Houston famous song “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” in 2022.

“Today is 85! In a caption at the time, he wrote, “Happy Bday, Mom-Mom.” In the video, he and Caroline were shown holding hands and harmonizing to the Grammy-winning song’s chorus. The mother-son pair can be seen in the video swaying and snapping their fingers, and Bright finished the touching moment with a graceful spin.

Will captioned the photo at the time, adding, “Let’s dance our way to 100.”

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In his 2021 memoir Will, the King Richard actor wrote a great deal about the relationship between his parents and how it impacted his upbringing. He said in the book that at the age of nine, he witnessed his father strike Caroline “in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed,” and that the incident had a lasting impact on the way he perceived life and his work.

“Within everything that I have done since then — the awards and accolades, the spotlights and attention, the characters and the laughs — there has been a subtle string of apologies to my mother for my inaction that day,” the author wrote in the book. For failing her right then and there. for not resisting my father’s demands.”

He revealed in another passage of the book that he paid Caroline the $140,000 in outstanding child support that Willard Sr. owed her following their 2000 divorce. Will joked that Caroline was “the first person in the history of Pennsylvania to pay her own child back the back child support that they had paid for themselves” when she finally gave him the money back after learning that he had paid the obligation.