Bobbie Jean Carter, Nick Carter’s younger sister, died unexpectedly on Saturday, December 23, at the age of 41.

According to a source close to the Carter family, Bobbie Jean will be laid to rest in her native state of Florida.

While the circumstances of her death are unknown, the family believes Bobbie Jean died of a heart attack at home. She was also the mother of an eight-year-old daughter named Bella, who is now in the care of her grandma Jane.

Jane told TMZ at the time that she will “need time to process the terrible reality of this happening for the third time,” referring to the deaths of her son Aaron, 34, in November 2022, and daughter Leslie, 34, in 2012.

She went on to claim that while she was in “deep” sadness, she asked the “sympathetic to say a prayer for [her] precious eight-year-old granddaughter Bella, who previously lost her father and is now also left without her mother.”

Bobbie Jean formerly starred in the Carter family’s reality TV show House of Carters (which aired in 2006), but she has suffered with substance addiction issues in the years since.