Supermodel-actress Cindy Crawford lost her only brother, Jeffrey, when she was ten. He was diagnosed with pediatric leukemia and suffered for nearly two years before his death.She spoke at length about her childhood loss in an April 2025 episode of the podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders: About Your Mother.“I mean, so I was 8. My older sister would have been 10; my younger sister would have been 4. And Jeff was like 2, turning 3 when he got diagnosed, and then he was sick for two years. I didn't really feel it as a kid, and I didn't know and we knew he was sick, but we didn't really know what was going on,” Cindy recalled.She also mentioned that Jeffrey’s death was “devastating for the whole family.”Now, Cindy Crawford has suffered another loss. Her son, Presley Gerber, died on September 20. He was 27. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office revealed that Presley died at a rehab facility but did not disclose the cause.Exploring further what Cindy Crawford said about her brother’s deathOver the years, Cindy Crawford opened up about Jeffrey’s death. During a 2018 Return to Zero fundraiser in Los Angeles, the supermodel spoke to Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier.“I lost a brother when I was 10 years old, which, you know, we've talked about before. Even then, as a 10-year-old, I saw that people don't know how to talk to you about loss right.”Cindy recalled:"I went back to school, and some kids said nothing. Some kids made jokes, and it was awkward. Grief is awkward. We are not taught how to grieve… So many people have a miscarriage or stillbirth or lose a child very quickly after it's born, and I think we don't know how to take care of parents."In a May 2024 episode of Kelly Corrigan’s podcast, Cindy Crawford claimed to have experienced “survivor’s guilt” because her parents, John Crawford and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf, wanted a boy.“I am not sure they definitely wanted four kids, but they wanted a boy. My dad wanted a boy, so the fourth was the boy. And I think that there was a lot of guilt... there's that survivor guilt of the other kids, especially because we knew that my dad really wanted a boy, and we felt like, well, it should have been one of us. It was so weird for years,” she explained.Crawford explained that undergoing counseling through the COVID-19 pandemic made her realize that she needed to hear from her mother at the time that while they were “so sad that Jeff died,” they were also “so happy you all are here.” However, she also remembered that her mom was just 26 years old and had just lost a child.“We don't talk about death in our culture, and we don't talk about what you say to someone when they lose someone… A lot of people just kind of ignore it, or they don't want to bring it up because they don't want to upset the person. And for me anyway, I don't feel like that's inviting an opportunity to cry, laugh, share or whatever,” Cindy noted.She shared her own experience of how nobody said a word about her brother’s death at school, except one kid who asked whether it was “true” that Jeffrey passed away as they saw in the newspaper. Cindy Crawford recalled that she felt it was “so in your face”.In a November 2024 episode of the same podcast, Crawford returned to provide further details about Jeffrey’s diagnosis and death. She remembered how their mother would drive two hours from their hometown of DeKalb, Illinois, to Madison, Wisconsin, where her brother was “treated every day”, and then drove back another two hours.Jeff died two years after his diagnosis, when Cindy Crawford was ten. Her mother found comfort in faith and also attended grieving courses, while her father immediately returned to work. But the family did not seek professional help. When she was 16, the supermodel “begged” for therapy, but her mother said they couldn’t “afford” it.Subsequently, in an April 2025 episode of the podcast, Cindy Crawford further explained:“I have a brother who died and he had leukemia, and before we knew he had leukemia, one of the symptoms of leukaemia is that you bruise super easily. My dad had, like, swatted him, but it left like a handprint on him.”Following Jeff’s diagnosis, their mother “freaked out” at their father and told him:“You can't be hitting the kids that hard, you know, that's not a spanking.”John Crawford replied that he “barely” did anything, but never spanked his children again.Cindy Crawford also mentioned:“My mom was home and wasn't working at the time. Like she was able to help us deal with it. I remember when I had my first kid and like I called my mom and said, 'Okay, how did you survive?' You know, you can't imagine losing a child until you have a child. And even then, you don't want to imagine it. But I remember her saying, 'Well, I had three other kids looking at me to lead them through this.’ And I think that because of us, she kinda got out of bed and did what she had to do.”Cindy Crawford shared Presley Gerber with her husband and tequila mogul Rande Gerber. The couple also has a daughter named Kaia, who is younger than Presley.Cindy Crawford’s only son battled addiction and mental health issues. In a July social media post, Cindy shared Presley’s childhood picture and wrote in the caption that she was “proud of the man” he had become and would always remember him as her “little boy.”Her representative, Allie Jenkins, asked for “privacy” on behalf of the family in this “very difficult and painful time” in an email to The Guardian.