Snoop Doggโs daughter Cori Broadus and her fiancรฉ Wayne โDueceโ Polk bid a final farewell to their baby girl, less than a year after welcoming her into the world.
Broadus and Polk celebrated the life of their infant daughter, Codi, over the weekend in a memorial attended by family and friends. On Sunday, Broadus shared various scenes from her babyโs funeral to her Instagram page, including pictures from the church reception, of loved ones wearing matching โCodiโs Crewโ outfits and of the infantโs casket in the ground with flowers and a teddy bear laying atop.
โPart of me went with you,โ Broadus captioned her Instagram carousel. โMy girl for life.โ
In a video from the memorial, Broadus mourned her daughterโs short life and all the moments they could have shared in a moving eulogy. Broadus lamented being unable to see her baby girl take her first steps, bring her to her first day of school and support her through the highs and heartbreaks of life together.
Broadus, with Polk by her side, said โI donโt understand why this happened.โ
โIโm trusting God, but that doesnโt mean it makes sense to me. Some days I wonder if this world was just too cruel for someone as pure as you,โ she continued. โOther days, I wonder how Iโm supposed to live in a world without you in my arms.โ
Broadus, 26, and Polk became parents to baby Codi last February. The baby girl arrived prematurely, after Broadusโ 25-week pregnancy. The happy mom at the time detailed her emotional pregnancy journey, which she said included โblaming myself because I wasnโt able to give her all that she needed.โ Broadus said she praised God for supporting her and making her daughterโs birth possible.
Broadus had detailed her infantโs health issues in December, describing her daughter in a poem as a โmiracle wrapped in tubes and tapeโ with โlungs trying to catch up to the life inside her.โ The Choc Factory Co. makeup executive said she felt guilty that her daughter might also suffer from lupus, an autoimmune condition she was diagnosed with in childhood. In her poem, Broadus said she was hopeful her daughter would live a healthy life beyond the hospital walls of the NICU.
In January, Broadus revealed that her baby girl was back home in her arms and shared photo and video to Instagram. Weeks later, she announced she โlost the love of my life.โ
Broadus said in her eulogy that amid her mourning she feels relief that her daughter is at rest.
โI find comfort knowing you have your angel wings now, knowing you are home, safe.โ