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Jill Smokler, the founder of the popular parenting blog Scary Mommy and a New York Times bestselling author, died on Monday of brain cancer in her Baltimore home. She was 48.<\/p>\n

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Once described as \u201cBaltimore\u2019s biggest unknown celebrity,\u201d Smokler, a Massachusetts native, founded Scary Mommy in 2008 as a way to share \u201cthe imperfect side of motherhood.\u201d The blog took off, gaining millions of readers who saw themselves in Smokler\u2019s candid descriptions of her journey as a parent \u2014 the good, the bad and the ugly.<\/p>\n

Smokler authored two New York Times bestsellers, earning multiple Webby awards for her work and growing Scary Mommy into a national brand before selling it to a media company in 2015 and stepping away from the blog in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a million years, I would never have seen myself here,\u201d she told the Sun in 2011. \u201cReally, the fact that I can be doing something that I love and making a living off of it is kind of a dream. \u2026 It\u2019s more than I ever imagined and I\u2019m still kind of pinching myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In an obituary released Monday by Smokler\u2019s family, her loved ones wrote that she \u201clived as fully and unapologetically herself as anyone they had ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe taught me that being authentic mattered more than being right,\u201d her brother, Matt Epstein, said in the obituary.<\/p>\n

Smokler died of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer that she had battled for more than two years, according to her obituary.<\/p>\n

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