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Family addresses pregnant YouTuber’s shock death: ‘She was struggling to breathe’ – 9Honey
The family of a British YouTube star who died last week while eight months pregnant believe she suffered a “massive” heart attack.
Nicole Thea, 24, died on July 11 along with her unborn son, Reign, but her cause of death was not revealed.
Her grieving family has now revealed she was having trouble breathing.
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“Nicole was saying that she was struggling to breathe. She was struggling with her chest – she had a pain in her chest,” her uncle Charles Murray told the Daily Mail.
“From what I heard at the moment, we think she had a massive heart attack.”
Murray added that the family had been “really shaken up” over Thea’s sudden death, with no knowledge of her having any underlying health issues.
“It is so surreal as she was so young. It is such a shock,” he added.
In a video posted on July 1, days before her death, Thea told her 90,000 YouTube subscribers she was feeling “so out of breath 24/7” and was “emotional” constantly.
“I would walk from here to the end of the room and feel like I’m dying,” she said in the video.
Nicole and her partner Global Boga were expecting their first child together next month. (Instagram)
“I feel like the baby’s eating me. I’m having a good pregnancy, but emotions are just too much.”
Thea passed away at home in Hexborough, Yorkshire on Saturday morning, her mother Samantha Antoine confirming the news in a heartbreaking Instagram post.
“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
