Playboy Beauty 34yrs, Dies After 'Catastrophic' Stroke
 

Playboy Model and 'Queen of Snapchat' Katie May Dies After Suffering 'Catastrophic' Stroke aged 34 Leaving Behind Young Daughter

• Katie May, 34, has passed away after being hospitalized in Los Angeles since Monday
• Her family said the single mother-of-one had a blockage in her carotid artery, which supplies blood to the brain
• A GoFundMe page has been created to raise money for the education of her seven-year-old daughter, Mia
• May had a huge online fan base, with nearly 2million followers on Instagram alone
  

Daily Mail UK, 5 February 2016


Playboy model Katie May, whose popularity earned her the title 'Queen of Snapchat' from the magazine, has passed away after suffering a stroke on Monday.

May, 34, better known to her fans online as 'MsKatieMay,' had reportedly sought treatment for neck pain not long before suffering a stroke, which her relatives described as 'catastrophic.'

It is thought she suffered a fall during a photo shoot last week which led to the neck problem.
She reportedly suffered a blockage in her carotid artery, which is located in the neck and supplies blood to the brain, which led to her death.

The single mom leaves behind a seven-year-old daughter Mia.


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Playboy model Katie May (pictured on Instagram), whose popularity earned her the official title 'Queen of Snapchat,' has passed away after suffering a stroke on Monday


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First job: May is pictured with her ex-boyfriend Alex Maimon in 2006 when she worked as a publicist for the high-end fashion house Dolce & Gabbana


A campaign has been launched to raise money for May's lookalike daughter.
A recent update posted on the fundraising page, which as of Thursday afternoon has drawn more than $6,400 in donations, reads:

'Katie's family plans on using any money raised to help pay for education, Mia’s daily life and to help her dad with the costs of parenting.'

The bombshell blonde, whose photos have appeared in such publications as Playboy Magazine and Sports Illustrated, had a massive fan base, with close to 2million followers on Instagram alone.

In her most recent Instagram message, which was posted Monday, she wrote:

'Hope everyone is having a great Monday! It's very windy here today.'

The post was accompanied by a photo of the statuesque model posing in a cheeky bathing suit in Laguna Beach, California. It has drawn more than 41,000 'likes' as of Thursday.


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May was a single mother-of-one who lived in Los Angeles with her seven-year-old daughter, Mia


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Fearless: May said in a recent interview that she left her daughter's father five months into her pregnancy


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Family: Katie with her sister Jenny and her daughter who was born on October 31, 2008


In an interview last month, May revealed that she grew up in a small town outside Pittsburgh, the youngest of four children.

Both her parents were teachers who worked multiple jobs to support their family.
The proud native daughter said she was a massive Steelers, Penguins and Pirates fan, as well as a fan of the Lakers and Clippers. She also was a cheerleader for awhile.

After graduating from Ohio University and getting a job in public relations working for the high-end fashion house Dolce & Gabbana, May fell in love with a man called Alex Maimon, and later became pregnant, but a short time afterwards, their relationship came to an end.

While raising her daughter as a single parent, May quit her corporate job and started a PR firm of her own, but her company went under during the recent economic collapse.

She and Maimon also started a denim line after their split called SINR, which stood for Steel Inspired New-Age Revolution.

'I come from superhigh fashion. I’m not going to go down on denim [quality],' May told WWD at the time.
I want [SINR Denim] to be the Dolce & Gabbana of jeans.'


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Bombshell: May had a massive fan base, with close to 2 million followers on Instagram alone


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Businesswoman: May got into modeling after suffering a series of setbacks in the PR industry


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Siblings: Katie with her sisters Jenny (second left) and Meghan (far right) in a Facebook picture


May then went back out there and found work doing PR for an entertainment company, but after clawing her way back up the corporate ladder, she once again found herself unemployed and penniless when the company was sold.
That is when she decided to try her hand at modeling.

‘I was going to follow my true desire to be on the other side of the camera,’ she told the news site. ‘Even though I am much older than most of the girls in the industry and really had no experience.’

She said she wanted to make sure her daughter could go to private school. In November 2015 she said she made far more modelling than she ever did in a corporate job.

A playboy.com feature in 2015 crowned her the Queen of Snapchat, and she identified herself as such ever since.