Sofia Bella Pagan, the daughter of actors Leah Remini and Angelo Pagan, is a first-year college student. In May 2022, the "The King of Queens" star shared a sweet throwback picture of her daughter to mark the last day of her high school. "It's the last day of high school for our baby girl. It feels like we dropped off our little nugget at kindergarten just yesterday," she marveled in the caption. "Her dad and I are a mess, as one could imagine. Angelo asked me last night, 'so Leah, what's the future hold with our little girl going off to college?' I, of course, cried and said, 'I can't see a future yet without our daughter here every day in our house.' I am so proud of Sofia. Yet I'm scared and sad. I don't know what my life was like before our daughter."
Sofia's father, Angelo, also shared a heartfelt message during his daughter's going-off-to-college party. "So proud of my beautiful little sweet angel @sofiaapagann," he captioned the video on his Instagram.
On Aug. 17, Remini shared a compilation of her two appearances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," one before the birth of Sofia in 2004 and one from October 2021. In the old footage, Remini speaks about how she wants a baby girl but shares her concerns about the 10 percent chance of it being a boy. In the snippet from her latest appearance on the talk show, Remini holds back tears as she talks about her daughter going off to college soon. "I can't even take the thought of her leaving," she says, teary-eyed.
"Time goes by so fast . . . It feels like yesterday our Bella was in my tummy during this appearance on Ellen and now the countdown begins . . . We're just a few weeks away from taking our baby to college!" she captioned the emotional video.