Kaia Gerber Shares Poignant Message About Grief Nearly Two Months After Brother Presley’s Death
Kaia Gerber Shares Poignant Message About Grief Nearly Two Months After Brother Presley’s Death
Hannah MalachTue, November 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM UTC
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Kaia Gerber on July 27, 2026.Credit: Getty ImagesThe Gist -
Kaia Gerber shared a reading list for those dealing with grief in a new Instagram post.
It included Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart.
Her brother Presley died at the age of 27 in September.
Kaia Gerber is coping with grief through one of her favorite art forms—literature—nearly two months after the death of her older brother Presley Gerber. The model shared her reading list, as well as a poignant quote, for those dealing with loss in a new Instagram post.
The featured image showed a stack of books, including Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart.
Kaia Gerber and Presley Gerber on May 20, 2026.Credit: Getty Images
The following slide featured a quote from Didion’s bestseller: “Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
In September, Presley died at the age of 27 following a suspected drug overdose. Last month, his 25-year-old sister and their parents, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, memorialized Presley in a heartfelt tribute.
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Rande Gerber, Cindy Crawford, Kaia Gerber, and Presley Gerber in 2018.Credit: Getty Images
“We are beyond heartbroken to lose our beloved son and brother,” the three of them wrote in the caption of an Instagram post, which was shared on Crawford’s account on October 18.
“We feel so blessed to have had Presley in our lives for 27 years. He is a sweet, beautiful soul who loved and is loved, now and forever. We are so proud of how he showed up in the world, with kindness and vulnerability,” they went on.
Kaia and Presley Gerber in 2018.Credit: Getty
Meanwhile, Kaia shared her very own tribute to Presley: “Prez, I don’t have the words, and maybe the tiny mercy is that we didn’t need them all along. Words fail and words subtract and words summarize and words always lack truth. And how naive of me to believe that language could transcend grief,” she wrote.
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