Anthony Bourdain’s ex-wife shared a photo of their 11-year-old daughter, calling her “so strong and brave,” days after the celebrity chef’s suicide. 
 
 Ottavia Busia-Bourdain posted the pic Monday showing Ariane dressed in all black and tall studded boots, clutching a microphone at DROM music venue in Alphabet City. 
 
 “Our little girl had her concert today. She was amazing. So strong and brave,” the proud mom captioned the photo. “She wore the boots you bought her. I hope you are having a good trip, wherever you are.” 
 
 Ariane is Bourdain’s only child. 
 
 The “Parts Unknown” host was in the midst of filming his award-winning travel food show in France when he hanged himself in his hotel room. His body was discovered Friday morning. 
 
 Bourdain, 61, was married to Busia-Bourdain, an Italian-born Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter, from 2007 until 2016. She was his second wife. 
 
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 Anthony Bourdain‘s 11-year-old daughter took the stage over the weekend with a reminder of her father, just days after he was discovered dead at 61 on Friday morning in France from an apparent suicide. 
 
 In her first post on social media since Bourdain’s death, the chef and TV host’s ex-wife Ottavia Busia shared a photo of their only child, Ariane, with a microphone in her hand at DROM, a music venue in New York City. 
 
 “Our little girl had her concert today. She was amazing. So strong and brave. She wore the boots you bought her,” Busia captioned the shot, pointing out her daughter’s pair of studded black boots. “I hope you are having a good trip, wherever you are.” 
 
 A source who worked closely with Bourdain previously told PEOPLE exclusively that the late celebrity chef saw fatherhood as one of the bright spots of his life. 
 
 “It was quite evident that Tony was a ‘lighter’ human being around his daughter,” said the source. “When he spoke about her, his eyes danced. He talked about her constantly.” 
 
 RELATED: ‘I Like Being a Father — No, I Love Being a Father,’ and Everything Else Anthony Bourdain Has Said About Daughter Ariane 
 
 During what would be his final interview with PEOPLE, Bourdain noted that it was important he never shot in two cities back-to-back for his CNN series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown so he could spend five days a month with Ariane, who lives with Busia in New York. 
 
 Bourdain also said in February that he felt “some responsibility” to “at least try to live” since his daughter, Ariane, was born. 
 
 “I also do feel I have things to live for,” he explained. “There have been times, honestly, in my life that I figured, ‘I’ve had a good run — why not just do this stupid thing, this selfish thing… jump off a cliff into water of indeterminate depth,'” he said, recalling something he said he’d once done for his Travel Channel show. 
 
 He also described how, before his daughter’s arrival, he would “go to places” where “I was, frankly, asking for trouble. It was a daredevil move.” 
 
 But now, “in retrospect, I don’t know that I would do that today — now that I’m a dad or reasonably happy.” 
 
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 Bourdain maintained a close relationship with Busia. The two were married for nine years, but the TV host’s busy schedule contributed to their split in 2016. 
 
 “My wife and I live, have lived, very separate lives for years,” Bourdain told PEOPLE at the time. “There’s no drama here. We get along really, really well and it’s not a big lifestyle change happening here.” 
 
 Ottavia Busia and Anthony Bourdain Michael N. Todaro/WireImage 
 
 On Friday, Bourdain was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Kaysersberg, France, by his close friend Eric Ripert, according to CNN. Both were filming an upcoming episode of Parts Unknown. 
 
 Speaking with PEOPLE, French prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny previously said there was no evidence of violence in Bourdain’s death. 
 
 In an interview with the New York Times hours after the news of Bourdain’s death, his mother Gladys Bourdain said she had no indication that her son may have been thinking about suicide. 
 
 “He is absolutely the last person in the world I would have ever dreamed would do something like this,” she told the publication. 
 
 Gladys also said she spoke to Ripert, who told her that “Tony had been in a dark mood these past couple of days.” 
 
 If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “help” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
– A bittersweet Instagram post from Ottavia Busia-Bourdain is grabbing attention. It's a photo of Ariane, her daughter with ex-husband Anthony Bourdain, in which the 11-year-old's head is turned toward her left shoulder as she holds a microphone. The caption reads: "Our little girl had her concert today. She was amazing. So strong and brave. She wore the boots you bought her. I hope you are having a good trip, wherever you are." The New York Post reports the photo was taken at the NYC music venue DROM. People reports it was Busia-Bourdain's first social media post since the death of Bourdain, whom she was married to from 2007 to 2016. (Details on Bourdain's suicide were released over the weekend.)