Fans mourn Spanish influencer Patricia Rite, who died at 30 after a yearslong battle with metastatic skin cancer

• Fans are flooding Spanish influencer Patricia Rite's social pages with mourning and condolences.
• The 30-year-old was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2019, which subsequently metastasized.

Patricia Rite, a Spanish influencer and reality TV star with hundreds of thousands of followers across TikTok and Instagram, has passed away at age 30 following a yearslong battle with skin cancer that metastasized to other parts of her body.

Her family confirmed her passing in a statement posted to TikTok on April 16, and fans have since deluged her social media posts with eulogies and commemoration.

In 2019, the influencer, originally from Huelva, Spain, shared on Instagram that she'd been diagnosed with skin cancer. By 2020, she said she learned the disease had spread to "the right lung and glands."

Local Spanish outlet ABC reported that Rite was first diagnosed when she went to the dermatologist to remove a birthmark. She subsequently underwent four rounds of chemotherapy. In 2022, she shared a photo of her newly bald head — a heartbreaking turn of events that she said she was slowly getting accustomed to.

Last week, a note on Rite's TikTok account shared that she had passed away. The message has been viewed nearly 6 million times.

"Today, Patricia has left us," the statement reads. "Thanks to all the people who in one way or another have given her support and love during this time, directly and indirectly."

Rite, who also appeared on the Spanish reality series "Mujeres y Hombres y Viceversa," discussed her battle with cancer in many Instagram posts leading up to her death.

In December 2022, in Instagram posts translated from Spanish, she said she was undergoing both radiation and chemotherapy, an arduous process that left her body "completely destroyed." In January, however, she was unable to continue chemotherapy due to low platelets and anemia, she said, and required a blood transfusion.

That same month, Rite said she was experiencing "unbearable" pain and was in the hospital struggling with a fever. Two weeks ago, in her final post, she said she had started treatment and struggled with nausea but was starting to feel better "little by little."

Commenters — mostly Spaniards and other Spanish-speaking natives — mourned the loss after her courageous battle.

"A little bit of you has stayed in all of us who followed you and had you as part of our family," one fan wrote, translated to English. "How sad, how unfair," another fan shared. "I'm so sorry."