Nicole Thea, a London-based YouTube star, and her unborn child died Saturday, according to her family. She was 24 years old.
“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,” the family wrote in an Instagram statement on Sunday. . “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 statement did not elaborate on the cause of Thea’s death. He noted that Thea had previously scheduled “some YouTube videos” to upload to her channel before her death, including one of them trying a milk bath for the first time, which was posted on Sunday. Thea’s partner, dancer Jeffery Frimpong, better known as Global Boga, will post the remaining videos as scheduled. Thea’s management did not respond to NBC News’ email and phone requests for further comment.
Thea, who was about eight months pregnant, was known for posting beauty and dance videos and had been recounting her pregnancy online since announcing she was having a baby with Boga in an April video on Instagram. She had more than 80,000 followers on YouTube and more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and also created a jewelry and eyelash line called Thea Kollection.
“We can’t hide this any longer, secrets … GOD gave us the greatest blessing so far. I’m finally creating a beautiful little human within me,” wrote the YouTuber at the time. “Honestly, @global_boga has NEVER been the best support and GOD did not make a mistake in doing it the father.”
Boga shared a video on Saturday, with him dancing with a baby stroller, and wrote that he couldn’t wait to take his son to the playground. She wrote in an earlier post that she believed her son would be born on a Monday.
