British Reality TV Star Jade Goody Dies from Cervical Cancer

British reality TV star Jade Goody died Sunday following a very public battle with cervical cancer, according to People.

The 27-year-old died in her sleep on Mother's Day in the UK.

"She had been pretty much asleep for the last 24 hours," her publicist and friend Max Clifford told People. He added that she died "just before 4 o'clock this morning."

Goody's husband Jack Tweed, whom she married in a ceremony filmed for British television just this February, and her mother Jackiey Budden, were at her side at the time of her death.

In 2002 Goody skyrocketed to fame appearing in the UK version of Big Brother and remained in the public eye and press in the years that followed.

This summer, while shooting the Indian version of Big Brother, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, which had spread and become terminal by February.

She lived her cancer very publicly in order to bring awareness to the disease, Clifford said.

"Her legacy will be that a lot of women owe their lives to Jade Goody because of her public announcement and battle against cervical cancer," Clifford said.