Cindy Crawford, 60, spoke about something almost no mother dares to say out loud. 💔
In an interview with PORTER magazine published on September 10, 2026, she confessed that raising adult children means learning to “take a step back”, and that no one explains how that stage feels until you live through it. She spoke about Presley and Kaia, her two children with Rande Gerber, with the tenderness of someone beginning to let go. She did not know that ten days later she would have to let go forever.
On September 20, Presley Gerber died at the age of 27 in a rehabilitation center, according to records from the Los Angeles medical examiner.
Months earlier, he had shown his struggle with mental health and addiction: in December, he shared his treatment with buprenorphine, and in March, he traveled to Mexico for an ibogaine procedure, admitting that he was “absolutely terrified”.
His mother’s words about letting him grow up hung in the air, without knowing that they would be the last before the loss.