Nicole Thea, a 24-year-old YouTube star from London, and her unborn child suddenly passed away on Saturday morning. CNN reports that Thea was around eight months pregnant at the time of her death.
“For all of Nicole’s friends and supporters it is with great sadness that I have to inform them that Nicole and her son, she and Boga, named Reign, sadly they passed away on Saturday morning,” said a statement from her mother. It was posted on her Instagram page along with a photo of her. “As a family, we ask that you give us privacy because our hearts are truly broken and we are struggling to cope with what happened.” The cause of death during this time is unknown.
Thea became popular on the site for various videos, such as hair and killing wigs tutorials travel vlogsand dance visuals, accumulating more than 87,000 subscribers. She was recounting her pregnancy in a series of clips posted on her YouTube channel, with the latest video appearing on their page on Sunday. Some videos were preprogrammed before his death, and will still air as planned, according to the Instagram post revealing his passing.
She and her boyfriend, street dancer Global Boga, announced that they were expecting a child in April through an Instagram video.
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“GOD gave us the greatest blessing to date,” said the ad legend, which accompanied a video of Thea and Boga (real name, Jeffrey Frimpong) dancing in the mirror. “I am finally creating a beautiful little human within me. I can’t believe this bubba is half of me and half of the [love of my life]. “
According to the Confidential UK investigation into maternal deaths, the probability of death for black mothers was 1 in 2,500 between 2014 and 2016, a rate five times higher than that of a white mother in the United Kingdom. As in the USA, these figures could be the result of insufficient prenatal care, which could be caused by social and economic problems in black communities, as well as health complications experienced by waiting black women, like pre-eclampsia. However, black women’s fear of not be believed on the part of doctors and nurses about their complications could also play a factor.
“We have to talk about the fact that black women may not feel that they will be taken seriously, which could make them less likely to reveal how they feel,” said Dr. Ria Clarke. saying BBC in 2019. “This is urgent because women are dying and if it is not racial prejudice, we need to know why [it is happening]. “
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