Farewell to Frankie from The Real World

Real World

By Tabloid Baby | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 | 11:45 am | 5 Comments

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Sad news for all us fans of MTV’s The Real World. Frankie Abernathy, an infamous star of The Real World: San Diego back in 2004, has died after a bout with the cystic fibrosis that helped make her something of an outcast on the show.

She was 25.

Word comes from her hometown, Kansas City, where the The Pitch weekly remembers Frankie as “an angst-ridden Midwesterner fighting small-town inadequacies, a fear of large boats and relationship turmoil caused by too much merrymaking.

“But anyone who knew her after the cameras and editing rooms had done their work knew that Frankie’s real personal growth happened after she reflected on how her public persona was received by the rest of America. Like most of us, she was still a work in progress: an art enthusiast, a talented singer, a jack of many trades and, as always, the life of the party.”San Diego was the fourteenth season of Real World. The seven castmember strangers lived in a blue, three-story former restaurant called The Blue Crab.

Frankie, known by the Real World fans as the punky former porn shop worker with cystic fibrosis, knew she’d have a shorter time on Earth than most of us. and that led to her to voice the opinion she was wasting her time on the show– and leave before the season was through.

Travis in the Tabloid Baby office remembers her as “the pretty girl who was always crying over her boyfriend.”

Do you remember Frankie?

–Tabloid Baby

5 Comments

  1. 1
    Niecy
    Posted June 12, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    wow, that’s really sad. my thoughts are with her family and friends.

  2. 2
    BunkitaSarita
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 4:01 pm

    She was my favorite from that season. Hopefully she was able to accomplish what she wanted to during her time.
    Very sad

  3. 3
    mandymax
    Posted June 15, 2007 at 7:10 am

    Such a shame. I was surprised, in reading all the articles I’ve found about this, that there was no mention of her boyfriend Dave anywhere. Whatever happened between the two of them?

    I remember when her sister Mimi was on. She was the cutest kid. I feel bad for her – for her whole family.

  4. 4
    babeblue
    Posted June 19, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    how sad :(

    she seemed like a really interesting and complex person and unlike a lot of the RW alums, she wasn’t a fame whore.

    hopefully she raised more awareness for cystic fibrosis by being on the show. i just wished that she wasn’t a smoker. that probably didn’t help her condition any. but i’ve been around people with terminal illnesses as part of my job and sometimes they do things that people with the option of longevity wouldn’t do.

    my thoughts are with her family and friends.

  5. 5
    Lolly McLollerson
    Posted June 23, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    Looks like the cunt was too punk rock for life.

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