(Gray News) \u2013 Popular mommy blogger Jill Smokler died at age 48, according to an obituary shared by her family on social media. <\/p>\n
Smokler, who founded Scary Mommy<\/a>, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s with broken hearts that we share that Jill passed away this morning, after a more than two-year fight with glioblastoma,\u201d Smokler\u2019s family wrote in a post on her official Instagram<\/a> account. \u201cShe faced it the way she faced everything \u2014 funny, fierce, and completely herself.\u201d<\/p>\n Smokler started the Scary Mommy blog when she was home with three children under 4, according to Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShe said the things mothers weren\u2019t supposed to say out loud, and because she said them first, millions of you finally felt allowed to say them too,\u201d her family wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n Scary Mommy said in a tribute post<\/a> that because of Smokler\u2019s vision, \u201ceveryone here can still feel validated, understood and seen as they do one of the hardest things you can do: parent.\u201d<\/p>\n In lieu of flowers, her family is asking that donations in her memory be made to the Brain Tumor Network.<\/a> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n