Popular mommy blogger dies at 48 two years after devastating cancer diagnosis

Jill Smokler, laminitis of Scary Mommy, has died astatine property 48 aft a conflict pinch glioblastoma, an fierce shape of brain cancer.

The celebrated "mommy blogger" had been fighting nan illness for nan past 2 years, according to an announcement posted connected ScaryMommy.com connected Monday.

The stay-at-home mother of 3 launched nan blog successful 2008 arsenic a spot to stock nan "joys and pitfalls" of parenting, according to nan article.

As Scary Mommy expanded from a individual blog into a awesome parenting brand, Smokler built a pursuing pinch her honest, often self-deprecating return connected motherhood. She went connected to speak astatine blogging conferences, writer bestselling books, look connected nationalist tv programs and gain 3 Webby Awards, her curriculum vitae states.

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"Jill spent her life telling nan truth astir motherhood — that it could beryllium awesome and intolerable successful nan very aforesaid activity — and successful doing so, she gave millions of women support to extremity pretending and consciousness a small little alone," her family shared successful a connection pursuing her passing.

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"She was funny, fearless, generous and wholly herself. More than thing she built, Jill was proudest of her 3 children, Lily, Ben and Evan. We are heartbroken to suffer her, and endlessly proud of nan people she near connected nan world."

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Smokler's first motion of nan illness was successful April 2024, erstwhile she knowledgeable a abrupt seizure. She past underwent room to region a encephalon tumor, aft which she didn't admit her ain children, she antecedently shared with Today.

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"I americium decidedly grateful that I don’t retrieve nan looks connected their faces erstwhile I didn’t admit them," she said. "That must person been gutting."

Smokler was diagnosed pinch glioblastoma, nan astir communal malignant superior encephalon tumor successful adults and 1 of nan deadliest forms of encephalon cancer. There is presently nary cure.

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Following surgery, nan blogger underwent radiation and chemotherapy, during which she was unfastened astir her curen broadside effects, including fatigue and hairsbreadth loss. Additional surgeries and objective tests followed, according to previous interviews.

"Thank you, Jill, for everything. May you remainder successful peace," nan Scary Mommy station concluded.

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About 13.9% of each encephalon tumors are glioblastomas, according to nan American Brain Tumor Association. More than 12,000 caller cases are diagnosed successful nan U.S. each year.

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Median endurance is astir 12 to 18 months aft diagnosis, moreover pinch treatment. Only astir 5% to 7% of patients past 5 years aft diagnosis, information shows.