{"id":754307,"date":"2026-06-22T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754307\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:27:11","slug":"jill-smokler-founder-of-scary-mommy-dead-at-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754307\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Smokler, Founder Of Scary Mommy, Dead at 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Jill Smokler<br \/>\n                          Scary Mommy Founder Dead at 48<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              June 22, 2026<br \/>\n                            11:36 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  June 22, 2026<br \/>\n                                12:57 PM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260622_5ebac07eaed14f28b5cacd3b6bad138f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:956ff83d-32e2-4127-a201-f894d41821bb\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5ebac07eaed14f28b5cacd3b6bad138f_md.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Smokler instagram\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jill-smokler\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Smokler<\/a> &#8212; the founder of Scary Mommy, a content company she built from a personal blog &#8212; is dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to the popular parenting site, Jill died Monday &#8230; after a more than two-year fight with glioblastoma.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260622_1ccf442ba30f4a179d1dacbc4acd3d81\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:956ff83d-32e2-4127-a201-f894d41821bb\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1ccf442ba30f4a179d1dacbc4acd3d81_md.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Smokler instagram sub 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her family said in part &#8230; \u201cJill spent her life telling the truth about motherhood \u2014 that it could be wonderful and impossible in the very same breath \u2014 and in doing so, she gave millions of women permission to stop pretending and feel a little less alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They added, &#8220;She was funny, fearless, generous, and entirely herself. More than anything she built, Jill was proudest of her three children, Lily, Ben, and Evan. We are heartbroken to lose her, and endlessly proud of the mark she left on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260622_6723ed791355430989dd49903aedae99\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:956ff83d-32e2-4127-a201-f894d41821bb\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6723ed791355430989dd49903aedae99_md.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Smokler instagram sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The popular site, targeting mothers &#8212; specifically focusing on parenting, motherhood, current events, and pop culture &#8212; was created in March 2008 when Jill started a personal blog that caught fire with parents. Jill also released a companion book in 2012, &#8220;Confessions of a Scary Mommy,&#8221; and that became an instant bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, Jill\u2019s family has asked that donations in her memory be made to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.braintumornetwork.org\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">The Brain Tumor Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was 48.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jill Smokler Scary Mommy Founder Dead at 48 Published June 22, 2026 11:36 AM PDT | Updated June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-754307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}