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Who Was Scary Mommy Founder Jill Smokler? What to Know

Scary Mommy founder Jill Smokler rose to online fame with her blog on motherhood and parenting. Smokler launched the site, which includes content on parenthood, current events and pop culture, in 2008. News broke in June 2026 that Smokler died at age 48 after a battle with brain cancer. “It’s with broken hearts that we share that Jill passed away this morning, after a more than two-year fight with glioblastoma. She faced it the way she faced everything — funny, fierce and completely herself,” her family said in a statement via Instagram at the time. “She was so many things:...