Zuza Beine, 14, AML patient and influencer, dies after long battle

Zuza Beine, a 14-year-old social media influencer who publicly chronicled an 11-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia, died Monday morning, her family said in an Instagram post on Tuesday. Beine, a member of the content collective GlowHouse who amassed millions of followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, had been treated for the aggressive blood cancer since she was 3 years old.

"She lived 11 of her 14 years with a relentless cancer, yet lived more fully and gratefully than most," the family wrote in the statement announcing her death. They said her last video, posted days before she died, captured what she was grateful for and reflected both "beauty and suffering." In that Sept. 20 clip Beine shared a montage of everyday moments and wrote that her diagnosis had made her deeply grateful for small things many people take for granted.

In recent posts Beine had been candid about a decline in her health. On Sept. 18 she told followers she had spent two days in the hospital to receive IV medication for severe, chronic pain and that she was "constantly on pain medicine." In one candid social media post she wrote, "I'm living with pain constantly on a daily basis and that is...