My 600 pound Life - literal and figurative cows.

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Dottie Perkins Struggled With Health Issues After 'My 600-Lb Life'

In the same September 12, 2023, Facebook post, Dottie revealed how she'd become ill and her husband was having to care for her. "Chris hasn't been able to work all day, every day for quite a while for unforeseen reasons, which he has to come home and take care of me," she explained. "See folks, since developing COVID in 2021, to make a long story short, I lost my ability to walk and I'm now bedbound with Distal Heart Failure, low blood pressure and a list of other things including this UTI. I'm praying it doesn't send me to the hospital like all the other ones."

Dottie asked fans for prayers as well as help with purchasing groceries. She told followers, "Please if you can find it in your heart to help it would be greatly appreciated. I'm sorry we keep having to ask but we are trying. My cash app and email are below. I don't know what else to do. If you are not able to help please just pray for us."
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Seems like even losing over 300lbs can’t save a deathfat from a deathfat finale.
 
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GenociderSyo said:
Finally have time to get recaps done and this came up on my feed and now i'm REALLY curious what I've missed.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZclUFVvocBo
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Oddly enough, Lupe died 3 days before your post. That makes a total of TWENTY deathfats that have died since this show has aired.

For posterity, here's the list as of Oct 2025 (shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia):

  • Henry Foots, who was featured in season one of the show, died of an illness unrelated to his weight on May 16, 2013.
  • Rob Buchel, who was featured on the sixth season of the show, suffered a fatal heart attack on November 15, 2017, during the filming of the show, while staying in a skilled nursing facility in Houston. Buchel's death was the first during the patient's respective episode. Buchel was 41 years old at the time of his death.
  • LB Bonner, also featured in season six, died by suicide on August 2, 2018, at the age of 30.
  • Lisa Fleming, also a sixth season participant, died of an undisclosed illness on August 23, 2018, which was unrelated to her weight, at the age of 50.
  • Kelly Mason, a participant in the show's seventh season, died on February 15, 2019, from heart failure at the age of 41. Her death was the second in the series to be featured during the patient's respective episode.
  • Sean Milliken, who was chronicled on the fourth season of the show and his story is continued in My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? in seasons three, four and five, died on February 17, 2019, from infection complications. He lost 400 pounds, but regained most of it after his mother's death. He was 29 years old.
  • James King, a participant in the show's fifth season, died on April 3, 2020, from multiple organ failure due to his obesity at age 49.
  • Coliesa McMillian, featured on the show's eighth season, died on September 22, 2020, after being treated in ICU for two weeks due to acute kidney failure and other complications related to weight loss surgery. She was 41 years old.
  • Renee Biran, featured on the show's sixth season, died on May 14, 2021. She was 56 years old.
  • Gina Krasley, featured on the show's eighth season, died on August 1, 2021. She was 30 years old.
  • Ashley Randall, featured on the show's first season, died of sepsis, complications related to sepsis, and pneumonia on October 2, 2021. She was 40 years old.
  • Laura Ann Perez, featured on the show’s third season, died on November 17, 2021. She was 48 years old.
  • Destinee LaShaee, the first transgender patient who appeared in the show's seventh season, died on February 8, 2022, at the age of 31. Although the cause of death was not revealed, LaShaee and her family had stated she struggled with depression and suicidal ideation.
  • Angela Gutierrez, featured on the show's seventh season, died on March 21, 2023. She was 49 years old.
  • Larry Myers Jr., featured on the show's tenth season, died of a heart attack on June 13, 2023, three days after his 49th birthday.
  • Paul MacNeill, featured on the show's tenth season, died in a car crash on his way to work on September 21, 2023, aged 37.
  • Vianey Rodriguez, featured on the show's seventh season with her partner Allen, died due to complications of pneumonia on November 20, 2023, aged 41.
  • Latonya Pottain, featured on the show's eleventh season, died from congestive heart failure as a result of cardiac arrest on May 17, 2025; she was 40 years old.
  • Dottie Perkins, featured on the show's fourth season, died after a long battle with an illness on June 14, 2025. She was 44 years old.
  • Lupe Samano, featured on the show's fourth season, died on September 12, 2025. She was 50 years old.

Tick tock.
 
Wow, a lot of them died at 41 or 49 years old. If I remember correctly, Jen Armstrong died at 49, as well (or very close). Didn’t
make it to 50, either way. Interesting coincidence.
 
I think that 35 is the age of reckoning for a lot of deathfats (and probably people with shit habits in general), your body might have enough resiliance to keep you going through your 20's but so many fat influencers are hitting health and mobility issues hard in their mid 30's and it becomes harder to ignore.
 
Plethora+ said:
A number of them did succeed at losing substantial weight. I would love to see more data on final weight, basic activity, diet, what have you. Did they do so much damage to themselves by being fat that there was ultimately no recovery at any weight?
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Pretty much.

It is similar to heavy steroid users who go off the juice but still die early. The worst damage is irreversible.
 
Plethora+ said:
A number of them did succeed at losing substantial weight. I would love to see more data on final weight, basic activity, diet, what have you. Did they do so much damage to themselves by being fat that there was ultimately no recovery at any weight?
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Samuel Fuller said:
Pretty much.

It is similar to heavy steroid users who go off the juice but still die early. The worst damage is irreversible.
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It doesn’t help that many of them were extremely overweight from a young age. Many of them were already 100 pounds by first grade. The human body is amazingly resilient, but only up to a point. The youngest of those deaths, Sean, also reached the highest weight of anyone in the show. Not even youth can help much if you reach 1000 pounds and then lose and gain the same 400 pounds in less than a couple years.
 
toilet_rainbow said:
It doesn’t help that many of them were extremely overweight from a young age. Many of them were already 100 pounds by first grade. The human body is amazingly resilient, but only up to a point. The youngest of those deaths, Sean, also reached the highest weight of anyone in the show. Not even youth can help much if you reach 1000 pounds and then lose and gain the same 400 pounds in less than a couple years.
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Sean was a bit of an odd case because from what I remember about his episode it seemed that his death may have had more to do with the extreme fluctuation in his weight. He would lose some weight, stall, put it back on, lose some more, stall again, put it back on again. It was like he was continually losing and gaining the same amount of weight without giving his body any rest. As bad as it is to weigh that much, losing it just to than have a constant battle of loss-gain is also a bad idea for your body. It was probably too much for his organs to handle.

He was an incredibly sad story because he was so mentally-deficient. From the beginning it was clear he didn't the capability or the structures needed to take care of himself. Dr. Now really shouldn't have taken him on as a patient if they couldn't intervene and come up with a program to turn him mentally into an adult.
 
LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2 said:
Sean was a bit of an odd case because from what I remember about his episode it seemed that his death may have had more to do with the extreme fluctuation in his weight. He would lose some weight, stall, put it back on, lose some more, stall again, put it back on again. It was like he was continually losing and gaining the same amount of weight without giving his body any rest. As bad as it is to weigh that much, losing it just to than have a constant battle of loss-gain is also a bad idea for your body. It was probably too much for his organs to handle.

He was an incredibly sad story because he was so mentally-deficient. From the beginning it was clear he didn't the capability or the structures needed to take care of himself. Dr. Now really shouldn't have taken him on as a patient if they couldn't intervene and come up with a program to turn him mentally into an adult.
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That is true. And by extreme fluctuation, it was well over 200 pounds that he was yo yoing right up to his death.

It might’ve been a strange form of suicide since he was grieving over his mother’s death and couldn’t function after how much coddling she did to him. His ultimate goal in life was to waste away in a nursing home. Tragic all around.
 
Even more 8008135 said:
So Pauline Potter (of the hideous blue pants) apparently died on Nov 27th at age 62.

Here's a video her son Dillon ("Dilly") made addressing her death.
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Late but here's an article on it. The former fattest woman in the world dead due to complications from a car crash, what a world.
Pauline was basically dragged to her current weight kicking and screaming by Dr Now and it was honestly a little surprising she actually managed to do it. Glad she kept the weight off until the end. Her end was very tragic, but on the other hand it is oddly bittersweet for one of these patients to die from something more normal. Tragic and devastating of course, and her last few months seemed terrible, but at least she's at peace now and continued the good work.
 
Candidae said:
Late but here's an article on it. The former fattest woman in the world dead due to complications from a car crash, what a world.
Pauline was basically dragged to her current weight kicking and screaming by Dr Now and it was honestly a little surprising she actually managed to do it. Glad she kept the weight off until the end. Her end was very tragic, but on the other hand it is oddly bittersweet for one of these patients to die from something more normal. Tragic and devastating of course, and her last few months seemed terrible, but at least she's at peace now and continued the good work.
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While she kept the weight off, it looks like she transferred her food addiction to other vices. It looks like she had become an alcoholic after losing the weight.
 
Charity "Asswings" Pierce has died at age 50. Posting from her daughter Charly.

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Anyone remember Penny Saegers? The woman who wanted her yellow brick road, and claimed she could wash her vagina now?
Is she still alive, or has she gone to the hog trough in the sky and freed Edgar and Liam?
 
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