Instagram: zuzas_way_to_healing14-year-old influencer Zuza Beine has died of acute myeloid leukemia, a condition that she chronicled online for her millions of followers across Instagram and TikTok.
Acute myeloid leukemia, often abbreviated as AML, is a cancer that affects bone marrow, where blood cells are produced. It causes stem cells within the bone marrow to create too many immature and abnormal white blood cells, which don’t work as normal and crowd out other healthy blood cells.
As a result, the body experiences a shortage of healthy red blood cells, leading to fatigue, weakness, bruising, bleeding, and a weakened immune system, as there are fewer white blood cells to fend off infections.
Acute myeloid leukemia, in particular, tends to progress very rapidly, hence the name. Beine was diagnosed with the cancer at just three-and-a-half years old, and struggled with it for eleven years before her death in September 2025.
Beine’s Instagram and TikTok pages are full of videos showing the young influencer sharing her daily life, doing her hair and makeup, and hanging out with friends. As per her Instagram profile, she was a five-time survivor of leukemia and had undergone three total bone marrow transplants.
Thanks to her bubbly personality and brutally honest videos showing her life living with AML, she had accrued a combined following over over 3 million across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. She was even a member of the Glow House, a group of Gen Z content creators.
Fans pay tribute as family announces Zuza Biene’s death
Beine’s family broke the news of her death in an Instagram post on September 23, 2025, confirming that she had died the morning of September 22.
“She lived 11 of her 14 years with a relentless cancer, yet lived more fully and gratefully than most. Her being changed us forever, and her dying will, too,” they wrote.
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“It is no coincidence to us that the last video she made captures what she was grateful for—a testament to a life filled with both beauty and suffering. More than anything, she wanted to be a normal, healthy kid. But what made her life so beautiful was how she learned to face the hardest circumstances, like her disease, and still live fully.”
They encouraged Beine’s followers to send any monetary donations to the GoFundMe that was created to benefit the family of her uncle, who had died just a week prior.
Instagram: zuzas_way_to_healingFans were left shocked and saddened by the sudden news, wishing her parents well during h
“I’m in tears. I love Zuza. She was strong and so beautiful inside and out. She humbled me with her strength. My heart and prayers are with you,” one wrote.
“My heart is shattered for someone I never even met. Zuza, you are a one of a kind angel. I will never stop thinking about you and the joy you spread in your short life,” another said.
Beine’s death follows the tragic passing of another influencer from cancer just a week earlier. YouTuber Tayta Games, known for her humorous videos playing through horror games and other titles, died earlier in September from colon cancer at 21 years old.