Kaia Gerber Mourns the Death of Brother Presley Gerber

Kaia Gerber is mourning the death of her older brother, Presley Gerber, who died in September at the age of 27, Extra TV reported.

An official cause of death has not been released yet since toxicology results are still pending.

In a collaborative Instagram post with Library Science, Gerber highlighted the power of reading while processing her loss. She shared a photograph of a book stack that featured works on grief.

The stack included Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H Mart,” Roger Housden’s “Risking Everything,” Sloane Crosley’s “Grief Is for People,” Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet,” and Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow.”

Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking” rested on top of the pile. Gerber included a quote from the book, writing, 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.

Other titles featured in the social media post included Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” Joe Brainard’s “I Remember,” Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough’s “From Here to the Great Unknown,” and David Kessler’s “Finding Meaning.”

Last month, the actress shared a tribute to her brother on Instagram. The carousel post began with a childhood throwback video of the siblings dancing together. I love you the bluest, to the moon and back and back again, forever big brother, she wrote.

Gerber followed the video with a written letter across subsequent slides. 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.

The actress described the overwhelming nature of her loss in the digital post. 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, she stated.

She added, I am, quite literally, down on my f**king knees. You know how much I loved being your sister. It has always been, and will forever be, my favorite thing about myself.

Toxicology results remain pending regarding the cause of death. Officials have not yet announced an official determination.