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 with glioblastoma, an assertive signifier of encephalon cancer.

The fashionable "mommy blogger" had been warring the illness for the past 2 years, according to an announcement posted connected ScaryMommy.com connected Monday.

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

As Scary Mommy expanded from a idiosyncratic blog into a large parenting brand, Smokler built a pursuing with her honest, often self-deprecating instrumentality connected motherhood. She went connected to talk astatine blogging conferences, writer bestselling books, look connected nationalist tv programs and gain 3 Webby Awards, her biography states.

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"Jill spent her beingness telling the information astir motherhood — that it could beryllium fantastic and intolerable successful the precise aforesaid enactment — and successful doing so, she gave millions of women support to halt pretending and consciousness a small little alone," her household 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 arrogant of the people she near connected the world."

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Smokler's archetypal motion of the illness was successful April 2024, erstwhile she experienced a abrupt seizure. She past underwent country 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 the looks connected their faces erstwhile I didn’t admit them," she said. "That indispensable person been gutting."

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

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Following surgery, the blogger underwent radiation and chemotherapy, during which she was unfastened astir her attraction broadside effects, including fatigue and hairsbreadth loss. Additional surgeries and objective trials followed, according to erstwhile interviews.

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

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

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