Overview

• Holly Branson posted a heartfelt Instagram message on July 22 to honor her mother Joan’s 80th birthday following a joint celebration of her brother Sam’s 40th aboard a Virgin Voyages cruise.
• She recounted living as a boy from age four to nearly eleven and credited Sir Richard and Joan Branson for never making her feel “strange.”
• Holly highlighted her mother’s most important lesson of unconditional love and the patience required to let children explore their identities.
• She said her parents’ acceptance informs the patient, empathetic approach she brings to raising her three children.
• On a 2021 podcast, Holly shared how she dressed as a boy, adopted male names and even stood to urinate during that childhood period.