Kris Jenner's mom, beloved matriarch Mary Jo 'MJ' Shannon, dies at 91

Kris Jenner’s mom, Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon, has died.

Jenner announced the quality of Shannon’s decease Thursday successful an Instagram tribute. She was 91.

“Today, we said goodbye to my beauteous Mommy MJ. ... There are nary words that could ever seizure what she has meant to maine oregon the heartbreak of having to accidental goodbye. My ma was the bosom of our family.”

Jenner wrote that her mother, the matriarch of the Jenner-Kardashian clan, taught her everything that “truly matters.”

“To emotion your household fiercely, to beryllium kind, to amusement up for the radical you love, and to ne'er instrumentality a azygous infinitesimal unneurotic for granted,” she wrote alongside a glamour changeable of Shannon. “She taught america that household is everything. She showed america however to emotion unconditionally and however to find joyousness successful the small moments. She showed maine however to look life’s challenges with resilience and faith.”

Jenner concluded the station with an unfastened missive to MJ:

“Mom, convey you for each sacrifice you made, each portion of contented you shared, and each infinitesimal you loved america truthful completely. I volition miss our regular talks, your smile, your laughter… Our hearts are broken, but we find comfortableness knowing that emotion similar yours ne'er genuinely leaves us. Your emotion volition unrecorded connected successful our family, successful our traditions, successful each infinitesimal we are together, and successful each beingness you touched. When I look astatine my kids and my grandkids, I volition everlastingly spot pieces of you successful each of us. There is not a portion of maine that isn’t shaped by you. And if I person done thing close successful this world, it’s due to the fact that I spent my beingness trying to unrecorded successful a mode that would marque you proud. Every memory, each moment, each blessing, it was each due to the fact that of you, and I volition everlastingly convey God each azygous time for making you my mommy. My bosom is breached into a cardinal pieces… convey you for giving maine the top puerility and ohio what a beauteous blessed life… I emotion you everlastingly Mommy. Thank you for giving america everything.”

Born Mary Jo Campbell connected July 26, 1934, MJ joined her precocious schoolhouse sweetheart, whom she divorced 2 months later. Then successful 1954, she wed Jenner’s dad, Robert “Bob” True Houghton. She gave commencement to Jenner the pursuing twelvemonth and Jenner’s precocious sister, Karen Houghton, successful 1958. After 7 years of marriage, MJ and Bob called it quits and she joined Harry Shannon, a businessman who helped rise Jenner and her sister successful San Diego, wherever MJ ran a children’s covering store.

Harry Shannon died successful 2003.

MJ was featured connected the celebrated clan’s E! world bid “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and the follow-up Hulu bid “The Kardashians” galore times implicit the years. In a clip from the show, granddaughter Kim Kardashian elaborate that her grandma had survived colon crab and bosom crab and, successful her sunset years, struggled with sickness resulting from the crab treatments.

In 1 clip from the show, MJ said she didn’t person an appetite without taking her “medication” first. Then she persuaded her daughter, Jenner, to person marijuana gummies with her. Together they lit immoderate incense and munched connected muffins and chips and guacamole.

In different clip, Jenner interviews MJ astir her life, and during the sit-down, Jenner asks MJ, “What’s your biggest fear?”

MJ replies, “I effort not to fear,” and past follows up asking Jenner what her biggest fearfulness is.

Jenner starts to outcry and says, “I don’t privation to accidental it. I can’t judge I’m crying. ... Just, losing someone.”

On Thursday, Kim Kardashian caught flak online erstwhile a station featuring the Skims mogul and her sister Khloe Kardashian swigging tequila from a vessel connected a water published soon aft Jenner announced the quality of MJ’s death.

“This station was scheduled a fewer days agone earlier we mislaid MJ, truthful its timing came close alongside her passing,” Kim wrote successful the remark conception of the post. “I’ve been by my ma and grandma’s broadside this past week, and my bosom is wholly with my household close now. We emotion and miss her truthful deeply, and successful the days ahead, we’ll beryllium focusing connected celebrating her beauteous life.”

Kim followed up with a station celebrating her grandmother, writing, “My saccharine Grandma MJ, my champion friend, my gossip buddy, my everlastingly duplicate ... You taught each of america the value of family, and those values are thing we’ll transportation with america forever!!!!! You were the pistillate who showed maine what it meant to beryllium a hardworking businesswoman. You gave maine my precise archetypal occupation astatine your store successful San Diego and taught maine lessons astir enactment ethic, strength, and assurance that I’ve carried with maine ever since.

“You ever believed successful me, championed me, and were my harmless place. You genuinely were the matriarch of our family, and your emotion is woven into each of us. I cognize you’re astatine bid now. Give Papa Harry, Aunt Karen, and my dada a hug for me. You volition ever beryllium a portion of me, I emotion you soooooo overmuch and I volition miss you everlastingly and ever. ... YOU ARE THE BEST OF US!!!”

Two weeks ago, Jenner’s bodyguard, Mason Haynes, who besides worked arsenic a adjacent extortion defender for different members of the Kardashian-Jenner family, died successful a postulation accident. He was 52.

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