Nicole Thea, 24 a London-based YouTube star, and her unborn child died on Saturday 11th, July 2020 according to her family.
A statement from her mother said the 24-year-old and her baby died on Saturday morning, but did not reveal how.
“To all Nicole’s friends and supporters it is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Nicole and her son she and Boga named Reign sadly passed away on Saturday morning,” the family wrote in an Instagram statement 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 has happened.”
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The London dancer and influencer, who has 180,000 Instagram followers and 90,000 on YouTube, was eight months pregnant and had been regularly keeping her fans up to date on her pregnancy.
Her mother revealed that Thea and her boyfriend, TikTok star Global Boga, 20, had named their unborn child Reign.
She said several videos her daughter had filmed before her death will be published on her YouTube channel.
Her boyfriend, a member of the street dance team Ghana Boyz, had posted a video of himself dancing with a pram early on Saturday and said in a post last week he believed his son was arriving “on a Monday”.