Maggie Beer shares harrowing loss of daughter Saskia
Acclaimed Australian chef, Maggie Beer has said her family is “broken hearted” while announcing the loss of her daughter Saskia Beer on Friday night.
The chef and businesswoman who died at just 46-years-old passed away “unexpectedly yet peacefully” on Friday night.
"It is with broken hearts we need to let you all know that Saskia, our beautiful, extraordinary daughter, sister, wife and mother died unexpectedly yet peacefully in her sleep on Friday night," the post wrote, shared on the social media accounts of Maggie Beer and Saskia Beer Farm Produce.
"We ask for time and space as we grapple to come to terms with our loss and appreciate all the support we have been given."
The meat produce and catering business, which was once ran by Ms Beer, will now be taken on by her husband, Petar Jercic.
Her website shared the young, driven cook had developed an “affinity for food” after being "surrounded by the principles of good farming and honest cooking" through her mother's restaurant and her father Colin's farming.
Ms Beer is survived by her three children and her husband Petar who she married in April last year.