“Toddlers & Tiaras” star Kailia Posey reportedly died by suicide.
Posey’s household revealed the tragic explanation for loss of life in a Tuesday statement to TMZ – a day after information broke the 16-year-old had died.
“Though she was an completed teenager with a brilliant future forward of her, sadly in a single impetuous second, she made the rash resolution to finish her earthly life,” the household advised the outlet.
Posey’s mother, Marcy Posey Gatterman, initially shared the heartbreaking information of the teenager’s loss of life in a Monday evening Fb submit.
“I don’t have phrases or any ideas. A gorgeous child woman is gone,” she wrote. “Please give us privateness as we mourn the lack of Kailia. My child endlessly.”
Gatterman had posted photographs of Posey attending promenade only a few days previous to her loss of life.
Posey was a younger star on the TLC actuality sequence, which ran from 2009 to 2013 and featured households who ready their youngsters to compete in magnificence pageants. She grew to become a well-liked GIF when her evil grin went viral.
In January, Posey introduced on Instagram that she was gearing as much as compete as Miss Washington Teen USA in February.