'Real World' star dies at age 25
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Frankie Abernathy, who was on The Real World: San Diego in 2004, died on Saturday. She had cystic fibrosis, but it has not yet been reported what the cause of death was. She was 25.
From a story in the Kansas City Star:
Abbie [Hunter, Frankie's mother] and her husband, Perry, Frankie’s stepfather, always thought Frankie should take better care of herself — she didn’t give up smoking until she was on “The Real World,” for instance.
“But I don’t think she had any regrets as far as the things she did do,” her mom said. “She had a lot more stories at 25 than I have at 47. She lived pretty good. She had a lot to cram in.”
Abernathy’s health had deteriorated in the last year. She couldn’t walk very far, and she was in the hospital more frequently.
