{"id":669892,"date":"2026-05-14T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669892\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:58:08","slug":"love-on-the-spectrum-star-pari-kim-loses-mom-esme-to-cancer-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669892\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love on the Spectrum&#8217; Star Pari Kim Loses Mom Esme to Cancer Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          &#8216;Love on the Spectrum&#8217;<br \/>\n                          Pari Kim Mourning Mom&#8217;s Death After Cancer Battle<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              May 14, 2026<br \/>\n                            1:01 PM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  May 14, 2026<br \/>\n                                2:40 PM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260514_9e2c98b17542486394de92ecac717959\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:750fdf86-a990-4ac4-ae09-d60b07949391\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9e2c98b17542486394de92ecac717959_md.jpg\" alt=\"pari kim esme mother netflix 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love on the Spectrum&#8221; star Pari Kim is dealing with unimaginable heartbreak &#8230; revealing her mother, Esme, has died after a reported battle with stage 4 breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old reality star shared the devastating news in an emotional Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYTcBxAy8DT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post<\/a> Wednesday night &#8230; opening up about the crushing grief of losing both parents at such a young age. Pari wrote, &#8220;It feels like everything is becoming a train wreck&#8221; as she described the internal battle between mourning and trying to stay positive enough to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260514_285b42125b7945d3bcb042e20162a555\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:750fdf86-a990-4ac4-ae09-d60b07949391\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/285b42125b7945d3bcb042e20162a555_md.jpg\" alt=\"pari kim esme mother netflix\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trains have long been a huge part of Pari&#8217;s life &#8212; she is known for her deep love of railroads and public transit. Keeping with her metaphors, Pari added &#8230; &#8220;It\u2019s difficult to keep chugging along when your guardian locomotive reaches the end of the line but you have to keep going somehow even without her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pari later shared another gut-punch on her IG Story &#8230; reminding followers to cherish loving parents while they can, because &#8220;time is precious&#8221; &#8230; adding she didn&#8217;t expect to lose both of them so young.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, Henry, died suddenly back in 2020 at age 55. Esme was 61.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260514_db18f5f9c9464574b166a0f59dcb5a0b\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:750fdf86-a990-4ac4-ae09-d60b07949391\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/db18f5f9c9464574b166a0f59dcb5a0b_md.jpg\" alt=\"pari kim sub getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several of Pari\u2019s fellow &#8220;Love on the Spectrum&#8221; castmates flooded the comments with support &#8230; including Madison Marilla, who wrote Esme &#8220;fought very hard,&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/abbey-romeo\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abbey Romeo<\/a>, who said she wanted to give Pari a big hug.<\/p>\n<p>The heartbreaking loss comes just weeks after Pari also revealed she and ex-girlfriend Tina Zhu Xi Caruso had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/25\/tina-zhu-xi-caruso-and-pari-kim-break-up\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">split<\/a> &#8230; saying they were &#8220;two trains on different tracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love on the Spectrum&#8217; Pari Kim Mourning Mom&#8217;s Death After Cancer Battle Published May 14, 2026 1:01 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,225528,225529,225530],"class_list":["post-669892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-heidi-montag","tag-heidi-montag-info","tag-who-is-heidi-montag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}