Lauren Sánchez Bezos didn't mean to be a helicopter parent.

She just happens to fly helicopters.

So when the TV host soared over her son Nikko Gonzalez 's football practice back when the 24-year-old was in high school, she told the Wall Street Journal in 2023, "He was like, 'Mom, you're embarrassing me!' But he secretly thinks I'm cool, I know it."

That access to private transportation may continue to serve her now that her second son has left the nest as well, Lauren admittedly hovering between tears and joy after dropping her son Evan Whitesell , 19 —her eldest child with ex-husband Patrick Whitesell —off at University of Miami for his freshman year.

"There he was building his own dorm cabinet," she posted to her Instagram Story Aug. 11. "A small thing but in that mom

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