Ariana Grande Shares Vintage Photo of Mom Joan for Her 68th Birthday

Happy birthday to Ariana Grande’s mom, Joan Grande!

Joan celebrated her 68th birthday on Tuesday, June 10, and Ariana shared a few sweet snaps of them together to her Instagram Stories as well as a vintage picture of her mom alongside a heartfelt note about their bond.

“It’s my mama’s birthday !!!!!!!!! Happy birthday to the most beautiful and brilliant and compassionate mama and friend @joangrande,” wrote the Grammy-winning singer, 31, over a smiling throwback photo of Joan.

“I love you with all my heart,” added Ariana. “There is no one like you.”

The “Eternal Sunshine” artist then shared three selfies with Joan seemingly taken on the set of Wicked and an image of her mom’s hair in a ponytail.

Ariana and brother Frankie are quite close with Joan and father Edward Butera, who split during the siblings’ childhoods — but are now friends.

In a February interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, the Oscar-nominated actress opened up about her parents’ relationship and how she played a part in them becoming friends post-split.

“They’re not together, but they’re best friends,” she said. “It took 18 years and it took me forcing it. I forced them to communicate again. I really did.”

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The “7 Rings” singer explained the shift happened around her 24th birthday in 2017. “I remember just kind of being at this pivotal point where I was just like, ‘You guys, I love you both so much. It’s been such a long time. Figure it the f— out,’” she recalled. “Like hello, it’s been 18 years. I’m 80 [years old]. Please get over it. And they did.”

These days, Ariana joked, she “can’t separate them” from one another. “It’s the best thing in the whole world,” she said on the podcast. “I guess they just had like, some sort of beautiful conversation or realized that like, how much they love me is so much louder than whatever nonsense happened way back when.”

She continued, “It really is beautiful, and if only they had the tools that I feel like we have now, this generation, with therapy and embracing that, maybe it could have happened sooner, but it was just the perfect thing…. It makes me really happy.”