TikTok star Okay Baby’s mom, Katelynn Ordone, is opening up about how she’s navigating grief after son Preston’s death.
“I have gained 20 lbs since our accident,” Katelynn shared in an August YouTube video. “There’s two kinds of people in this world when they become depressed. Some people, when they’re depressed, they can’t eat. They can’t even think about food. They don’t want to touch anything. There’s some people in this world when they’re depressed is, like, all they can do is eat. I think it goes without saying which one I am.”
Katelynn noted that she’s “thinking about getting” on one of the “weight loss shots, at least for a month or two.” She shared that the family “couldn’t drive for a long time” after the accident, leading them to do takeout more often.
“I just started being able to drive. It’s probably been a month now, but we were doing takeout for so long that it kind of just became a habit,” Katelynn said. “I also struggle to just do things in general, so it’s just easier for me to do takeout, but we can’t keep doing that forever, and I really want to start cooking again and cooking healthier meals.”
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Katelynn and husband Jaelan Ordone’s friends shared in April that Preston died at age 2 in a single-vehicle accident. Both Katelynn and Jaelan sustained injuries, while their daughter, Paisley, was at school.
The next month, Us Weekly confirmed that Preston died from “blunt force injuries due to a motor vehicle crash.” The St. Tammany Parish coroner’s office categorized his death as accidental.
Kateylnn later shared that she doesn’t have “any memory” of the accident. “I don’t have any memory of 2-3 days after the accident. I don’t have much memory of being in the hospital until towards the end,” Katelynn explained in a July TikTok. “I suffered a traumatic brain injury and lost a lot of my memory.”
Katelynn noted that her father, Glen Norris, told her about a call she made moments after the incident.
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“The accident was awful and somehow I was able to get ahold of my phone,” she explained. “I 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.”
While Katelynn doesn’t recall sending her parents their location, she knows she told them to “get there” ASAP, and she proceeded to speak with her dad for nearly 20 minutes.
“He could hear people asking me if I had kids, and I was saying, ‘I don’t know.’ I was just out of it,” she said. “There [were] moments that I could talk, there [were] moments that I was just groaning and moaning in pain and then there [were] moments of silence where I wasn’t talking at all.”