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Bobbi Kristina Brown: In happier times

As Bobbi Kristina Brown is laid to rest amid sadness and controversy, we’ve taken a look back at the 22-year-old's life in happier times.

As Bobbi Kristina Brown is laid to rest amid sadness and controversy, we’ve taken a look back at the 22-year-old’s life in happier times.

Despite living her life in the public eye and it being awash with devastating loss and a tragic end – Bobbi Kristina Brown still fit so much into her short, but powerful lifetime.

During happier times her smile was contagious and her love infectious, Bobbi was unquestionably the apple of the parent’s eye.

In her last ever interview, Whitney Houston touchingly told Access Hollywood, “My daughter is my greatest inspiration.”

Bobbi clearly idolised her mother too, telling Oprah in 2012 after her death: “She wasn’t only a mother, she was a best friend. She was a sister, a comforter.”

Even in her death, the daughter of two music legends still faces callousness, which heartbreakingly seems to be the price tag for living a life with such force and velocity that Bobbi Kristina did.

We’ve showcased the late Bobbi Kristina Brown’s moments of happiness amidst the grief that often plagued her life.

Click through to view Bobbi Kristina Brown in happier times

“I’m just blessed to be in such an incredible woman’s life, there will never be another one,” Bobbi told the crowd at the Billboard Music Awards in 2012. In 1998 the Houston/Browns were every part the happy family.

Married in 1992, Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were besotted with their gorgeous little girl Bobbi Kristina Brown and didn’t travel anywhere without her.

“She wasn’t only a mother, she was a best friend. She was a sister, a comforter,” Bobbi Kristina adored her mother, relishing the opportunity to be onstage with her.

“She taught me everything I know. She made me the woman who I am today,” Bobbi told Access Hollywood after her mother’s tragic death in 2012. Here, the mother-daughter duo hold hands as they arrive at the 1999 Academy Awards.

Happier times: Bobbi Kristina is pictured here with her mum Whitney Houston and dad Bobby Brown at the premiere of Princess Diaries 2 in 2004.

Even from an early age, the cherubic Bobbi Kristina Brown was a regular on the red carpet, pictured here with her dad Bobby Brown in 1994.

In Whitney Houston’s song The Greatest Love of All she sings: “I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.” This seemed to be how both Bobbi and her mum lived their lives – which were both cut tragically short. The mother/daughter duo sing together at a concert in 2009.

“My daughter is my greatest inspiration.” Whitney told Access Hollywood in her last ever interview – and we can see why, even after all her adversity Bobbi Kristina managed to live a full life, despite it being cut so short.

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