Nick Carter’s sister Bobbie Jean has died aged 41 – a year after the tragic death of brother Aaron Carter

Tragedy has struck the family of Nick Carter and Aaron Carter again with the unexpected death of their sister Bobbie Jean Carter at just 41 years old.

Her cause of death is not yet known, but she was found in her Florida home on Saturday morning TMZ.

Bobbie Jean – or BJ, as she was known to her family – is the third Carter sibling to meet an early death.

Aaron died on November 5, 2022, at the age of 34. He was determined to have drowned after inhaling difluoroethane and taking alprazolam, the generic version of Xanax.

Ten years earlier, in 2012, Leslie Carter died at the age of 25 due to a toxic combination of predictive drugs.

Her cause of death is not yet known, but she was found in her Florida home; the Carter siblings Aaron, Nick, Bobbie Jean, Leslie and Angel Carter pose for a family portrait in 2006

TMZ obtained a statement from Jane Cater in which she poured her heart out after the loss of her third child.

“I am shocked by the sudden death of my daughter, Bobbie Jean; and I will need time to process the terrible reality of this happening for the third time,” she began.

“If I can think clearly, I will make a fuller statement; but until then I would ask to be allowed to grieve in private.”

She added: ‘[H]No matter how deeply a parent feels the loss of a child, the suffering of a young child from the loss of a parent must be much greater.

“So I would like to ask those who sympathize to say a prayer for my precious eight-year-old granddaughter Bella, who previously lost her father and is now also left without her mother.”

Bobbie Jean had a lifelong history of substance abuse and addiction and had a history of arrests, including one earlier this year.

In June, she was arrested and booked for possession of fentanyl after she was caught stealing $55 worth of crafts from a Hobby Lobby in Florida.

When she was taken to the craft store’s office so management could call the police, she panicked, reached into her bag and threw a light blue bottle under the desk.

BJ during the press tour for E!’s House of Carters reality TV series in 2006

Bobbie Jean Carter during a lunch at Us Magazine in 2006

Angel Carter, Leslie Carter, Aaron Carter and Bobbie Jean Carter arrive at the Reality Remix Echt Awards at Les Deux on October 24, 2006

Bobbie Jean was featured on the E! reality TV show House of Carters.

She appeared in all eight episodes of the show, which focused on Nick Carter and his four full siblings as he and the Backstreet Boys worked on the band’s sixth studio album, Unbreakable.

In the series, the siblings all tried to revive their careers and rekindle their bond as a family.

The series lasted one season in 2006 and since then Bobbie Jean has avoided the public eye.