{"id":2499706,"date":"2026-07-13T05:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2499706"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:47:30","slug":"katelynn-ordone-details-ups-and-downs-after-sons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/katelynn-ordone-details-ups-and-downs-after-sons-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Katelynn Ordone Details \u2018Ups and Downs\u2019 After Son\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Influencer <strong>Katelynn Ordone<\/strong> is opening up about her return to social media after the death of her son Preston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs many of you already know \u2026 I\u2019ve had a hard time coming back to social media since losing Preston. I\u2019ve struggled to even pick up my phone to capture new memories, knowing he won\u2019t be in any more of them,\u201d Ordone wrote via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DarS-kCljdw\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> on Saturday, July 11. \u201cIt has been 443 days since my baby boy has been in heaven. There have been so many ups and downs, and while I\u2019m still not ready to share everything with the world again just yet, I\u2019ve finally started picking up my phone again and capturing new memories more often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cEven though it\u2019s still hard, I\u2019m grateful I\u2019ve reached this point because I know that\u2019s what Preston would want. I truly believe he wants his mama to continue finding joy until we meet again someday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the message, Ordone shared a series of photos featuring the mom smiling on the beach with an unidentified man.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/influencer-katelynn-ordone-returns-to-instagram-after-okay-baby-death\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/influencer-katelynn-ordone-returns-to-instagram-after-okay-baby-death\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Influencer Katelynn Ordone Is Ready to Tell Her &#8216;Truth&#8217; After Son&#8217;s Death<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tInfluencer Katelynn Ordone has returned to social media following her self-imposed online hiatus to grieve the death of her 2-year-old son, Preston. \u201cI decided to take a break from social media about a month ago because I was really struggling mentally,\u201d Ordone, 26, said in a Tuesday, January 13, Instagram video. \u201cI needed to check [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo, here\u2019s a new memory I\u2019d like to share with you guys,\u201d she concluded. \u201cI hope to keep sharing more as I\u2019m ready. Thank y\u2019all so much for all the love, support, and grace you\u2019ve shown me through all of this. \ud83e\udd0d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her Saturday post, Ordone shared a tribute for Preston in April, on the one-year anniversary of his death. News broke in April 2025 that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/family-speaks-out-after-tiktoks-okay-baby-dies-in-single-car-crash\/\">Preston died at age 2<\/a> in a single-vehicle car crash. Both Preston\u2019s parents, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/katelynn-ordone-honors-husband-on-fathers-day-after-sons-death\/\">Katelynn and <strong>Jaelan Ordone<\/strong>,<\/a> were in the car at the time of the accident and sustained serious but non-fatal injuries. Preston\u2019s sister, Paisley, was at school when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>One month later, the St. Tammany Parish coroner\u2019s office shared that Preston died from \u201cblunt force injuries due to a motor vehicle crash.\u201d His death was categorized as accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Katelynn shared in July 2025 that she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/tiktok-okay-babys-mom-has-no-memory-of-accident-due-to-brain-injury\/\">doesn\u2019t have \u201cany memory\u201d of the incident.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/why-influencer-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-online-break-after-sons-death\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=400&amp;h=225&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=200&amp;h=113&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=300&amp;h=169&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=400&amp;h=225&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=600&amp;h=338&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=800&amp;h=450&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=900&amp;h=506&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=1000&amp;h=563&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=675&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/why-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-social-media-break.jpg?w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Influencer Katelynn Ordone Explains Why She's Taking a Social Media Break Months After Death of Son\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/why-influencer-katelynn-ordone-is-taking-online-break-after-sons-death\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Why Influencer Katelynn Ordone Is Taking Online Break After Son\u2019s Death<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKatelynn Ordone is pressing pause on social media months after the death of her 2-year-old son, Preston. \u201cMost of y\u2019all know, I\u2019ve obviously been really struggling mentally since losing my son Preston [in] April of this year,\u201d Ordone shared via Instagram on Friday, December 26. \u201cI wanted to come on here just to let everybody [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any memory of the accident. I don\u2019t have any memory of 2-3 days after the accident,\u201d she said via TikTok at the time. I don\u2019t have much memory of being in the hospital until towards the end. I suffered a traumatic brain injury and lost a lot of my memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katelynn explained that her dad, <strong>Glen Norris<\/strong>, later told her that she had made a call to 911 moments after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accident was awful and somehow I was able to get ahold of my phone,\u201d she explained. \u201cI called 911 first. I was on the phone with them for five minutes. The only reason I know that is because I saw it in my call logs and then my parents have told me that I called them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influencer Katelynn Ordone is opening up about her return to social media after the death of her son Preston. \u201cAs many of you already know \u2026 I\u2019ve had a hard time coming back to social media since losing Preston. I\u2019ve struggled to even pick up my phone to capture new memories, knowing he won\u2019t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2499460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,25601,21738],"class_list":["post-2499706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-deaths","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Katelynn-Ordone-Confirms-Split-From-Husband-After-Sons-Death.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499707,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499706\/revisions\/2499707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}