The YouTube community is in mourning.
Jessica Pettway—a YouTuber known for her beauty, fashion and lifestyle content—died on March 11 after a battle with stage three cervical cancer, her sister Reyni Brown confirmed on social media. She was 36.
“It’s my birthday today, and the one thing I could ever wish for is for God to bring you back on this earth,” Reyni wrote in a March 15 Instagram post alongside a photograph of herself and Jessica. “I lost my beautiful big sister 2 days ago and my heart has never felt pain like this.”
Reyni went on to say that Jessica was “probably the most amazing, strong, confident” woman she had ever met and filled her life “with a lot wisdom, prayed for me, and helped me change into a greater mother.”
She added, “Life won’t ever be the identical without her crazy laugh, pranks, or jokes. Loosing [sic] a sibling seems like a connection between us was destroyed. I like you with all my heart.”