Find the Story of YouTuber Jessica Pettway’s Cervical Cancer Misdiagnosis and Death!

Posted on March 20, 2024 | Published By: Denise | In Death , Health

Jessica Pettway. PHOTO: JESSICA PETTWAY/INSTAGRAM

Jessica Pettway announced her diagnosis in a candid July 2023 Instagram post.
The beauty influencer was 36 at the time of her death.

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How did Influencer Jessica Pettway die?

Youtuber and beauty influencer Jessica Pettway is dead. Pettway who had over 18 million views on YouTube was only 36.

She died nearly nine months after she revealed that she had been diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer in a candid Instagram post. Her sister Reyni announced the sad news on Instagram.

Sharing a photo of them, Reyni wrote,

“It’s my birthday today, and the only thing I could ever wish for is for God to bring you back on this earth. I lost my beautiful big sister 2 days ago, and my heart has never felt pain like this,”

Reyni also remembered her sister as “amazing, strong, confident” and someone “with so much wisdom, prayed for me, and helped me become a better mother.”

Pettway started posting her lifestyle and beauty videos on YouTube in November 2013. She had posted nearly 450 videos and accumulated over 225,000 subscribers.

Jessica Pettway — Pettway had over 16 million views on YouTube. source: People

She went public with her diagnosis last year and revealed that she had initially been misdiagnosed with fibroids, described as “common growths of the uterus,” per the Mayo Clinic.

The influencer wrote,

“I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. I don’t even know where to begin, but I want to share why I’ve been gone for so long, in hopes that at least one person is encouraged by my story,”

She recalled that her symptoms first showed up after she experienced “intense vaginal bleeding” in June 2022.

Also, Read RIP Jessica Pettway! Beauty YouTuber died after a year-long battle with cervical cancer

How did Jessica’s family cope with her medical problem?

The diagnosis remained the same throughout her hospitalizations between July 2022 and January 2023 until visiting an oncologist in February 2023.

She wrote at the time,

“On Feb. 8th, 2023, he performed an outpatient biopsy on me. When I woke up from the anesthesia, he casually said, ‘Yep you have stage 3 cervical cancer.’ It turns out, it was not a fibroid, but cancer. I was misdiagnosed all this time,”
“I remember hearing that and immediately saying to myself, ‘I refuse to make an agreement with that diagnosis.’ And so I didn’t. Being told I have cancer didn’t devastate me. It was the reaction of those close to me,”

Jessica is survived by her two kids, 10-year-old Kailee and 3-year-old Zoi Lee, with her husband of 12 years.

That August, she described how she felt watching her family witness her medical journey. Pettway said,

“Anytime you’re dealing with an illness, it not only affects you, but it also changes the lives of those closest to you. This year rocked our world. From the countless hospital stays. To the financial strain. We been through it all! The girls are too young to understand, yet they noticed the changes,”

She also revealed that watching her husband break down “was rough” but that they “made a commitment that we would get through this together.”

Pettway added,

“We moved forward and did our best not to allow current circumstances to overtake us. It was definitely not easy, but we made it this far,”

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