James Van Der Beek’s Widow Kimberly Posts Emotional Tribute 4 Months After His Death
What To Know
- Kimberly Van Der Beek shared an emotional Instagram tribute to her late husband, James Van Der Beek, four months after his death.
- She posted videos highlighting James’s insightful parenting advice and his compassionate views on pregnancy loss.
- James Van Der Beek, known for starring as Dawson Leery on Dawson’s Creek, is survived by his wife and their six children.
James Van Der Beek‘s widow, Kimberly Van Der Beek, recently penned an emotional tribute four months after the Dawson’s Creek star’s death.
On Tuesday, June 9, Kimberly took to her Instagram Stories with two videos featuring her late husband, who died at 48 on February 11 after a battle with colon cancer. They had been married since 2010 and had welcomed six children: Olivia, 15, Joshua, 14, Annabel, 12, Emilia, 10, Gwendolyn, almost 8, and Jeremiah, 4.
The first clip Kimberly shared was a video James posted on his Instagram grid in July 2023. In it, the actor explained an insightful parenting approach he adopted for when a child falls down and gets (very mildly) hurt. “Allow them to feel their own pain — and watch how quickly they get over it on their own,” she wrote, quoting her late husband.
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On her Instagram Stories, Kimberly posted a second clip that James shared on Instagram in March 2023. “I am so blessed I got to be married to this man and go through pregnancy loss and having babies with him,” she captioned the update.
The video, from her Bathroom Chronicles podcast, featured James speaking about the language surrounding pregnancy loss and how it inadvertently places blame on women.
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“I still have a whole beef with the word ‘miscarriage’ because in a weird, insidious way, it puts guilt on the woman,” he pointed out. “We didn’t say, ‘Oh, the baby was lost.’ No, ‘She miscarried.’… It’s nothing that the woman has done in, like, all but the most extreme circumstances, from what I’ve been told by doctors.”
Dawson’s Creek aired for six seasons from 1998 to 2003. In the teen drama series, James played the titular character, Dawson Leery. The show also starred Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, Kerr Smith, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, and John Wesley Shipp, among others.
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