TikTok star Rachel Yaffe dead at 27

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online obituary, which revealed she passed away Friday after battling a rare form of liver cancer.There will be “private” funeral services for Yaffe in Maryland, per the obituary.Yaffe is survived by her devoted parents, Linda and Wayne Yaffe, her siblings, Jordan Yaffe and Jessica Yaffe, her grandmother, Sydney Bass, and her dog, Layla.

Her family asked that contributions be made to Experience Camps, a non-profit organization for grieving children based in Westport, CT.The late star posted her final TikTok on September 1, where she said she “was grateful” to be home in New York after moving back to Maryland to be near her family while getting cancer treatment.“It’s been so hard for me to get up and force myself to move, so I’m working on doing that,” she said, adding, “thankfully it’s easier to walk around here being in a city.”Yaffe also said she was “working really hard” to be on a strict food regiment which was “taking up a lot of energy” for her.“Finding the little joys helps me stay motivated even on my worst day,” she captioned the video.Yaffe explained that she was diagnosed with cancer at age 20 on TikTok in April 2023.“I went to a doctor over the summer, who knew me personally, and she felt around my whole body.

She even felt my liver and she didn’t feel anything, but she was like, ‘I can tell in your eyes that you feel like something is wrong with you,’” Yaffe said. “I feel like everyone was making me feel like it was my anxiety, like, I was crazy. … I went the next day to get an ultrasound.

I thought I was just allergic to gluten because I was also getting bloated.”Yaffe said that a doctor discovered she had a “20-centimeter tumor” called fibrolamellar on her liver.