Jill Smokler, founder of popular parenting blog and website "Scary Mommy," died Monday, June 22 after a yearslong battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 48.
Smokler's family broke the news in a social media post, writing "it's with broken hearts that we share that Jill passed away this morning, after a more than two-year fight with glioblastoma."
According to the post, "She faced it the way she faced everything — funny, fierce, and completely herself."
Smokler started "Scary Mommy" in March 2008 while she was raising her three children, all under the age of four, at home. "Here goes. Day One," were the first four words to ever be published on "Scary Mommy."
The obituary shared by Smokler's family described her contributions to the parenting community as "almost twenty years of telling the truth — the mess, the boredom, the guilt, the flashes of rage, and the love so big it somehow made all of it worth it."
Smokler's family broke the news in a social media post, writing "it's with broken hearts that we share that Jill passed away this morning, after a more than two-year fight with glioblastoma."
According to the post, "She faced it the way she faced everything — funny, fierce, and completely herself."
Smokler started "Scary Mommy" in March 2008 while she was raising her three children, all under the age of four, at home. "Here goes. Day One," were the first four words to ever be published on "Scary Mommy."
The obituary shared by Smokler's family described her contributions to the parenting community as "almost twenty years of telling the truth — the mess, the boredom, the guilt, the flashes of rage, and the love so big it somehow made all of it worth it."
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