Alex Vesia and his wife, Kayla Vesia, are still grieving the death of their baby daughter.
“Here I am at the six-month mark since losing my daughter, Sterling,” Kayla, 30, said in a Friday, May 1, video shared via TikTok. “Honestly, it’s very hard to wrap my head around the fact that we are at the six-month mark. I’m very torn and in between, ‘How did we get here already?’ and ‘Seems about right since time is also flying by.’”
Kayla and Alex, also 30, announced in November 2025 that their “beautiful daughter went to heaven.”
“There are no words to describe the pain we’re going through but we hold her in our hearts and cherish every second we had with her,” the couple captioned a social media statement at the time. “Thank you to the Dodgers for their understanding and support during this time. Our baseball family showed up for us and we wouldn’t be able to do this without them.”
Alex sat out the remainder of the MLB playoffs, including the 2025 World Series that the Dodgers eventually won. He returned for the next season earlier this year, wearing a tribute to Sterling on his new glove.
“I don’t know how to explain it. I have a mix of the longest days of my life … but now what really consumes my mind is thoughts of what life could be like right now with her here,” Kayla acknowledged in her Friday upload. “[I] wish she was here and I wish she was joining Alex and I in this life, all the things we do and planned for all of that. It’s really hard now to not have that.”
She continued, “Everything just seemed so dark, so heavy [at the time]. Now, where we are, it still [is] really f***ing heavy, but there are glimmers and flashes and times of happiness, a lot more, and I am so thankful for that ‘cause that’s helping move us forward.”
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Kayla further thanked her and Alex’s friends and family for their overwhelming support.
“Without them, we would not be where we are right now,” she said. “Therapy has just been such a huge part [of the] healing journey for both of us. … Therapy has been a huge help since we got home. I’m a very big advocate for that, so when we were ready, [Alex] wanted to start. I’m thankful that he wanted to be a part of that and he also wanted to get help.”
Even while trying to cope with Sterling’s death, Kayla still “thinks about her every minute.”
“I’m slowly finding peace and healing,” she said. “Every day is, obviously, still so different and it’s still dark and heavy. With time, therapy, family, friends, it’s getting lighter. It will never be the same [and] moving forward, always carrying her in my heart, in my body [and] mind.”
