--- description: Diem Brown, known for her time on MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge, has died of cancer at age 32, according to a report Friday. title: MTV Reality Star Diem Brown Dies at 32 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f65a70c4b9de1a2/698768d00b72e341c56dbeca/diem-brown.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # MTV Reality Star Diem Brown Dies at 32 by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2014 5:08 PM CUT  TV Personality Diem Brown attends Us Weekly's 2014 Most Stylish New Yorkers Celebration at Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel on Sept. 10, 2014 in New York City. TV Personality Diem Brown attends Us Weekly's 2014 Most Stylish New Yorkers Celebration at Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel on Sept. 10, 2014 in New York City.Mychal Watts—WireImage/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2014 5:08 PM CUT Diem Brown, known for her time on MTV’s _Real World/Road Rules Challenge_, has died of cancer at age 32, according to a [report](http://www.people.com/article/diem-brown-dies-cancer "undefined") Friday. The reality star was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 23\. She recovered, but was diagnosed again in 2012, _People_ reports. The disease later spread to her colon and stomach and, more recently, to her liver and lymph nodes. Despite an emergency hysterectomy, she had frozen her eggs and very much hoped to have a family some day. “I’m going to have a family and get married and the whole American, 2½ kids, white-picket fence dream,” [she said](http://www.people.com/article/diem-brown-cancer-surrogacy "undefined") in October. [Read more at _People_](http://www.people.com/article/diem-brown-dies-cancer "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3585787/diem-brown-dies-cancer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3585787/diem-brown-dies-cancer/"},"headline":"MTV Reality Star Diem Brown Dies at 32","datePublished":"2014-11-14T17:08:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:27:09.602Z","description":"First diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 23","url":"https://time.com/3585787/diem-brown-dies-cancer/","keywords":["celebrities","Cancer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f65a70c4b9de1a2/698768d00b72e341c56dbeca/diem-brown.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f65a70c4b9de1a2/698768d00b72e341c56dbeca/diem-brown.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Us Weekly's 2014 Most Stylish New Yorkers Celebration","caption":"Us Weekly's 2014 Most Stylish New Yorkers Celebration","creditText":"Mychal Watts—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3585787/diem-brown-dies-cancer/","name":"MTV Reality Star Diem Brown Dies at 32"}}]}] ```