Influencer Candice Miller returns to social media with cryptic post nearly a year after husband's suicide
Mommy blogger Candice Miller made her return to social media with a cryptic social media post nearly a year after her husband took his own life in their sprawling Hamptons estate, leaving her and her daughters with a crippling $33.6 million debt.
The glamorous mother of two, who ran the popular Mama & Tata blog with her sister documenting their ritzy lifestyle before her husband's shocking suicide last July, posted a photo of the sun glaring over the ocean on her otherwise deleted Instagram page Monday night.
'In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer,' a quote posted in the caption read.
'And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back.'
The quote is attributed to the philosophical French novelist Albert Camus.
4 Influencer Candace Miller returned to Instagram on Monday night 11 months after her husband's suicide.
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4 Miller posted a photo of the sun over the ocean with a quote attributed to Albert Camus.
Miller's husband, 44-year-old Brandon Miller, a high-profile New York real estate developer, poisoned himself in the garage of their Hamptons home over the 4th of July weekend last year as he secretly battled a mountain of debt totaling $33.6 million.
4 Miller sold the sprawling Hampton's estate for $12.8 million.
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4 Brandon Miller left Candice and their daughters behind with nearly $34 million in debt.
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At the time of his death, Miller had just $8,000 in the bank.
Candice reportedly admitted to friends that she never asked about his business dealings and didn't keep tabs on details of their personal finances.
After her life was upended by her husband's sudden death, Miller sold the Hamptons estate for $12.8 million and resettled with her two daughters in Miami, Florida, where she is attempting to rebuild her life.
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