{"id":2123723,"date":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123723"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:50:10","slug":"tiktok-star-kaelin-bradshaw-dead-at-29-after-battle-with-rare-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tiktok-star-kaelin-bradshaw-dead-at-29-after-battle-with-rare-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok star Kaelin Bradshaw dead at 29 after battle with rare cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F10%2F114443220.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kaelin Bradshaw, an influencer who documented her battle with a rare form of bile duct cancer, has passed away. She was 29.<\/p>\n<p>The late social media star\u2019s husband, Austin, announced the shocking news in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kaebradshaww\/video\/7566669211230047519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an update to her TikTok account<\/a> on Wednesday. He confirmed that she died on Monday, Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the moment Kaelin was diagnosed, she was devastated, but also determined,\u201d Kaelin\u2019s husband said. \u201cShe promised me and our family she was going to fight and never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>TikTok star Kaelin Bradshaw, who documented her battle with a rare form of bile duct cancer, passed away at the age of 29 on Oct. 27, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Tiktok\/@kaelin-bradshaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaelin\u2019s husband, Austin, announced the news in an update to her TikTok account on Oct. 29, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Tiktok\/@kaelin-bradshaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe fulfilled her promise, but unfortunately, her disease progressed beyond her body\u2019s ability to keep fighting,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Austin went on to reveal that Kaelin passed away while holding his hand around 1 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was not in pain, and her room was surrounded by the love and compassion of our entire family,\u201d he shared. \u201cShe was not alone, nor was she ever alone throughout this entire journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaelin\u2019s husband confirmed that she passed away on Oct. 27, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Tiktok\/@kaelin-bradshaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHer family and I were next to her at all times, behind the camera, in ears reach,\u201d Austin added.<\/p>\n<p>Kaelin\u2019s father, Mark, confirmed his daughter\u2019s devastating passing\u00a0in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQT8ap6FXFP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotional social media video<\/a> of his own on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with a heavy heart, we lost our beloved angel today,\u201d he captioned an Instagram video that included several sweet snaps of Kaelin. \u201cThank you for the love, prayers and support that everyone has shown our family, it means more now than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaelin\u2019s father, Mark, confirmed her devastating passing\u00a0in an emotional video of his own on Oct. 27, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Tiktok\/@kaelin-bradshaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cKaelin- Your light touched so many people , and your memory will forever shine in our hearts,\u201d he added. \u201cRest in peace my love you will be dearly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The TikTok star\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kaebradshaww\/video\/7565173941057113375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final video on the platform<\/a> was shared Oct. 16. She directed her nearly 100,000 followers to a GoFundMe page that was initially set up to help her and her husband \u201cwith whatever the future brings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\">\u201cHe\u2019s stayed with me every single night I\u2019ve been in the hospital and somehow managed to juggle two jobs on top of that,\u201d Kaelin wrote of her husband in the caption of her last-ever video. \u201cHe even sold his truck and boat just to help ease the financial pressure on both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaelin\u2019s final TikTok video was shared on the platform on Oct. 16, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Tiktok\/@kaelin-bradshaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\">\u201cI really want to take some of that stress off his shoulders so he can focus on just being here with me,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe\u2019re also hoping to take a trip together as soon as I get the green light to start my next treatment, and we\u2019d love to be financially ready when that time comes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaelin confirmed that she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-kae-and-family-through-this-tough-battle?attribution_id=sl:2ff605d4-993b-45dc-ab25-23b9f72e8d15&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1760889828&amp;utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp17_tb&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe page<\/a> she and her husband created earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Cholangiocarcinoma is a type of cancer that forms in the bile ducts that carry the digestive fluid bile, per the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/cholangiocarcinoma\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20352408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayo Clinic<\/a>. It reportedly occurs most often in individuals older than age 50 and is often diagnosed when it\u2019s advanced, making a successful treatment difficult.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaelin confirmed that she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma in a GoFundMe page she and her husband created earlier this month. <span class=\"credit\">Tiktok\/@kaelin-bradshaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The influencer said that she was \u201ccurrently in hospice care\u201d but \u201cstill fighting\u201d while \u201cholding on to hope and to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t something I ever thought I\u2019d have to write, but life has a way of throwing the hardest things at us when we least expect it,\u201d Kaelin wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the bottom of my heart, thank you for your love, support, and kindness during the hardest chapter of our lives,\u201d she concluded her GoFundMe message.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaelin Bradshaw, an influencer who documented her battle with a rare form of bile duct cancer, has passed away. She was 29. The late social media star\u2019s husband, Austin, announced the shocking news in an update to her TikTok account on Wednesday. He confirmed that she died on Monday, Oct. 27. \u201cFrom the moment Kaelin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[23383,21751,22062,304719,21741,22488],"class_list":["post-2123723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-cancer","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-tiktok"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TikTok-star-Kaelin-Bradshaw-dead-at-29-after-battle-with.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123725,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123723\/revisions\/2123725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}