If you’ve never heard the name Kailia Posey, you probably couldn’t miss her face: the 16-year-old was one of the stars of the Internet with her famous grimace, became a GIF (an animated image) then a “meme” (an image used in different contexts) on social networks.
This head so famous today dates from 2009, when her mother had registered her in the reality TV show Toddlers & Tiaras (literally “toddlers and crowns”), which shows children in the middle of a beauty contest. The little girl had at the time given everything to become a “mini-miss”, explaining that she loved making money in an expression just as famous as her grimace, “I like to win money!“.
Internet star, she was only 16 years old when she died, announced by her mother this Tuesday, May 3, 2022 on Facebook. Sad news in an absolutely poignant message. “I don’t have the words. A beautiful girl is gone. Thank you for respecting our privacy in the loss of Kailia. My baby forever“, she wrote, touched, without specifying the cause of death of the young girl, who was to register for Miss Teen USA last February, as she had announced.