Iyanla Vanzant is a renowned life coach, author and inspirational speaker who has helped millions of people overcome their personal challenges and find their inner peace. She is also a mother who has experienced the unimaginable pain of losing two of her daughters. Vanzant announced the passing of her youngest daughter, Nisa Vanzant, on her official Instagram account. The post read: It is with great sorrow that we announce the transition of Nisa Vanzant the youngest daughter of our Beloved Iyanla Vanzant we are asking for your prayers. Please respect the privacy of her and her family at this time. Thank you. No further details surrounding Nisa’s death have been released. She was 49 years old. This is not the first time that Vanzant has faced such a devastating loss. On Christmas Day, 2003, her oldest daughter, Gemmia, died after battling a rare form of illness. She was 30 years old. In an interview with TODAY co-host Hoda Kotb in 2021, Vanzant

opened up about how the loss of a child “changes who you are.” It changed who I was as a woman, first for the worse and then for the better. God must’ve really, really trusted me to give me a soul to bring into life, and to trust me with the courage to send her out. Vanzant also shared that she does not view the hardships of her life not including her childhood issues, her divorce and her daughters’ passing as “difficulties.” Rather, she sees them as part of her life purpose that allows her to relate to others in their pain and sorrow. I would say that the purpose of my life required that I had a depth of experience that would allow me to speak to people in the depths of their pain, in the depths of their sorrow. Vanzant also has one surviving son, Damon, who she had when she was 16. She is 69 years old.