Kris Jenner‘s mother Mary Jo Shannon has died, Jenner shared on Instagram. She was 91.
“Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ,” Jenner wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “There are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to say goodbye.”
Known as “MJ,” Shannon was a recurring presence in the Kardashian-Jenner reality TV universe, appearing in episodes of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and the family’s following program “The Kardashians.”
In “KUWTK,” Jenner checked in on her mom as she moved into a new condo, and in a 2025 episode of “The Kardashians,” Jenner started crying after a troubling phone call with Shannon. “It just gets to the point in life where you can’t be by yourself anymore,” Jenner said of her then-90-year-old mom. “It makes me sad. I just hate it when she’s in so much pain.”
“My mom was the heart of our family,” Jenner wrote on Instagram. “She taught me everything that truly matters… to love your family fiercely, to be kind, to show up for the people you love, and to never take a single moment together for granted. She taught us that family is everything.”
