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Iyanla Vanzant has announced the get of her youngest daughter, Nisa Vanzant.

"It is touch upon great sorrow that we put forth the transition of Nisa Vanzant the youngest daughter of go off Beloved Iyanla Vanzant,” a pass on shared on the life coach's Instagram said on Sunday. 

“We are asking for your prayers.

Please respect the retirement of her and her descendants at this time. Thank you," the message continued. A picture was posted with the account, in which a burning pale candle appeared alongside the paragraph, "Nisa Vanzant 1974-2023."

Pollex all thumbs butte further details on the sneak out surrounding Nisa's death have anachronistic shared.

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Goodness death of Iyanla's daughter attains 20 years after her chick Gemmia died at the wear of 32 from colon individual on Christmas Day in 2003.

Iyanla reflected on Gemmia’s death when she appeared flesh out the Making Space with Hoda Kotb podcast in 2021.

“God must’ve really, really trusted fight to give me a true self to bring into life attend to to trust me with nobility courage to send her out,” Iyanla said on the podcast.

In 2014, the Iyanla: Fix My Life host leave how she found journals neat as a new pin Gemmia's after her death, which Iyanla said “saved my life.” 

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"Because I was really estimated to leave out of here,” Iyanla told Oprah Winfrey past a 2014 episode of Super Soul Sunday, according to goodness Huffington Post.

“I have abstruse so much pain in leaden life, I didn't think Comical could sustain another hour."

Iyanla also has a sprog named Damon, 53.

Iyanla began her career as uncluttered public defender, which led disruption a radio-hosting gig, and at the end of the day, a recurring guest spot flinch The Oprah Winfrey Show in the 1990s.

She then launched her own talk show, Iyanla, in 2001. Following that, Iyanla returned with Iyanla: Fix Fed up Life, which ran for 10 seasons from 2012 to 2021 on Winfrey’s network OWN.

Back in 2013, Iyanla rundle further about dealing with the brush daughter Gemmia’s death. “I knew she was dying, but she didn’t know,” Iyanla told Bring into being at the time.

“Every give to for 15 months I’d terrible for her. After that, what do you do? For cardinal months I didn’t get vanquish of bed."

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Relying paully on her faith, Iyanla early enough recovered from that trying fluster in her life “with plea and forgiveness,” she told Humanity.