Supermodel Cindy Crawford and her daughter, Kaia Gerber, shared tributes to Crawford’s son and Kaia’s brother, Presley Gerber, who died at the age of 27 in September.
Crawford shared a family statement on Instagram, writing, “We are beyond heartbroken to lose our beloved son and brother. 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,” the post went on. “We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support from so many who know and love our family and even strangers who feel our pain. Til we meet again our sweet boy. We love you forever, Mom, Dad and Kaia.”
Kaia shared a separate tribute alongside photos and videos of the siblings during their childhood.
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“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,” Kaia wrote on Instagram.
“I’ve read all of the books and I have none of the answers. My articulation is no match against this, the magnitude of losing you. I am, quite literally, down on my f***ing knees,” the post continued. “You know how much I loved being your sister. It has always been, and will forever be, my favorite thing about myself.”
“I came into this world with a white-knuckle grip around you. I had more love for you than I knew what to do with. and now that it has nowhere obvious to go, I’m certain it’s going to swallow me whole,” Gerber went on “You believed — always believed — in people. You met cruelty not with anger, but with confusion. And curiosity. You believed people were inherently good because, Presley, you are inherently good.”
“And somehow, through all of it, I got to be your sister, your lucky eternal witness, watching you do the most hard-core, heavy metal thing anyone can do: you stayed soft,” she wrote.
Kaia called her big brother her “ultimate teacher.”
“Now I’m left wondering what I could possibly be taught in your absence, and I keep thinking about how when we were little, I got scared before getting my ears pierced, so you went first. You always went first. But when I held the earring they took from your body, all I could think was: that belongs to you. And I really f***ing wish you hadn’t gone first this time.”
“To say loving you was the easiest thing in the world would imply that it required any effort at all. I was born loving you. I will die loving you,” the “American Horror Story” actress continued. “There was never anything else. I am learning how to love you when I cannot see you. How to tell you something without picking up my phone to call you. How to be your sister in a world that I can’t reach for you in. I don’t know how to do that yet.”
“You missed our date. I forgive you. Keep a place for me in the meantime,” she wrote. “Because, Presley, even knowing where it ends, I would choose it all over again. Every second. I would walk knowingly toward this grief if it meant that on the other side of it I got to be your sister.”
“My darling brother, I do adore you,” she concluded. “I love my brother. My brother is dead. And this party sucks so bad without you, Prez. My best buddy, my great protector, the hardest I’ve ever laughed and the one true love of my life — you lit all of my candles and took all of my monsters away. And I love you. And I love you. And I love you. Only you know how much. Thank you for being here.”
Presley was in a rehab facility at the time of his death. An investigation into the death remains open, and no official cause has been given yet.
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