Mark Wahlberg has come a long way from his days as the rapper Marky Mark. He is now a family man through and through, using his platform as a celebrity to talk about the importance of being close to one’s family.

Wahlberg was particularly close to his mother, Alma. She passed away in 2021, and even three years later, he honors his mother.

Mark Wahlberg made sure to celebrate two amazing women who he has had the pleasure of knowing in his life. He posted on Mother’s Day to celebrate his wife Rhea Durham as well as his late mother, Alma.

On Sunday morning, the actor shared a post with a few pictures of his family. The first two pictures featured him and his wife, their children all gathered around his mother, Alma. The family is smiling brightly at the camera. The last picture is of his wife with their kids. Wahlberg made sure to honor both the special women in his life, then and now.

People appreciated him, including his mother, who wrote the emotional caption about how he missed her. One person commented, “What a great picture! Alma is looking down at you all!” Others related to his pain, with one person commenting, “This is my first mother’s day without my mom.. she passed in February” while another person added, “Much love from Chicago. I miss my mom too.”

Mark’s mom tragically passed away in 2021. Wahlberg took to Instagram to share the heartbreaking news, calling his late mother an angel. “My angel. Rest in peace,” Mark Wahlberg wrote in an Instagram post, alongside a photo of his late mother wearing a pink blazer.

His brother Donnie Wahlberg also posted about their mother’s passing. She was 78 years old, at the time of her passing.

Alma Wahlberg had nine children Michelle, Paul, Arthur, Jim, Tracey, Robert, Donnie, Mark and Debbie, who died in 2003 at age 43. Their father, Alma Wahlberg’s ex-husband, Donald Wahlberg, passed away in 2008.

The youngest of the family Donnie and Mark are the most famous but Alma became well known after appearing on the Wahlberg family’s reality show on A&E called “Wahlburgers,” a behind-the-scenes look at running a family restaurant.

Mark was exceptionally close to his mother. In 2018 Alma revealed how her son called her every single day without fail. “Mark calls me from all over the world. Every single day,” she said. “I don’t care if it’s 3 o’clock in the morning!”

The fact that he cannot call his mother every day also weighs heavily on Mark, who said, “It was always the first phone call that I made every single day for the last 10 years, was to my mom.” He went on to say, “And I don’t get to make that phone call anymore. And it’s heartbreaking. And that’s hard.”

As for Mark, he shares four children with his wife Rhea. Their eldest is their daughter Ella, who is now 20; then comes their son Michael, who is 18; then Brendan, who is 15; and finally, their youngest, Grace, who is 14.