Magic Johnson | Elisa

Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. is better known for his basketball talents, but he is also a loving father. He is also Elisa Johnson’s adoptive father. Elisa was adopted by Magic and Cookie Johnson when she was three days old, but she “never felt out of place growing up,” she told CR.

Her parents didn’t keep her life hidden from her, and she met her birth mother, Dawn, when she was 18 years old. In 2016, the two also shot a candid reunion scene for EJNYC. “I still get a little anxious before I see my birth mother, and I think she does too because we’re both really emotional people,” Elisa admitted, adding that seeing her mother is always “surreal.” Elisa is now a huge fashion fanatic. Before signing with Wilhelmina Models as a professional model, she earned a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology.