Toddlers & Tiaras alum Kailia Posey has died at 16, the pageant queen’s mother revealed in May 2022.“I don’t have words or any thoughts,” Marcy Posey Gatterman, who often appeared on the TLC reality show with her daughter, wrote via Facebook at the time. “A beautiful baby girl is gone.
Please give us privacy as we mourn the loss of Kailia. My baby forever.”Posey’s cause of death has not been publicly announced.
A spokesperson for the Washington State Police told Us Weekly that the state police were “called to assist Whatcom County Sheriff on a juvenile death investigation at Birch Bay State Park.”Posey was well-known from her time on Toddlers & Tiaras in 2016, even becoming a popular meme years later due to a viral GIF from the series that showed her looking to the side and laughing.
She continued to compete in the pageant circuit until her untimely death, often sharing photos of herself in full costume, makeup and hair via Instagram.In 2021, Posey won the title of Miss Lynden Teen and planned to compete in the 2022 Miss Washington Teen pageant, she shared via social media in January 2022.
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