Mariska Hargitay is celebrating a late legend — her mother Jayne Mansfield — on what would have been her 90th birthday.
“Happy birthday Mama. We live to love you more each day,” Hargitay, 59, penned on Instagram Wednesday, alongside a black-and-white snap of her late mom.
The throwback photo showed the sex symbol smiling next to a cake at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1956.
Mansfield was born on April 19,1933, and died tragically at the age of 34 in 1967 in a car crash.
The “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star was actually in the backseat of the vehicle with her two brothers, Miklós and Zoltán, when the roof of the car was ripped off.
While the “Too Hot To Handle” icon sadly passed, the three children survived.
The “ER” actress’ father is Mickey Hargitay, as Mansfield was married to the bodybuilder for six years starting in 1958.
The blond bombshell made a name for herself in Hollywood in the 1950s and ’60s, starring in films like “The Wayward Bus” and “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?”
She also posed for Playboy in 1955 and had a career as a nightclub performer.
Hargitay reflected on the trauma of losing her mom at just 3 years old, opening up about the loss to Glamour magazine in 2021.
“I think I learned about crisis very young, and I learned very young that s – – t happens and there’s no guarantees, and we keep going,” she noted.
“And then we transform it,” she continued. “That’s been kind of my superpower, and the gift of having trauma early in life.”
Hargitay went on: “I’ve spent the last 50 — how old am I? — 57, so 54 years sort of trying to figure out what happened and why, and what am I supposed to do with it?”
“I clearly was in that frozen place for a lot of my childhood — of trying to survive, actually trying to survive,” she said. “My life has been a process of unpeeling the layers and trust and trusting again.”
“[My life] has been a journey in healing,” the “Falcon Crest” alum admitted.
When asked if she had advice for her teenage self, Hargitay said, “People ask you that question, ‘What would you say to your younger self?’ ”
“And I think for me, I would have grabbed that little girl’s hand and said, ‘Everything is going to be OK. Trust me. Trust me. Everything’s going to be OK,’ ” she said.
