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Latonya Poissonwho paid national attention through his emotional journey to the TLC My 600 LB. Lifetragically died at only 40 years old.
His death was confirmed by the Coroner Office of the Parish of Natchitoches on May 17, the first reports pointing to congestive heart failure as the probable cause – a heartbreaking and unexpected ending of a life marked by struggle, resilience and hope.
Get up from the public thanks to TLC
Lato Attracted national attention after appearing in season 11, episode 2 of my 600 lb. Life, a series that follows the travel of obese morbid people looking for medical intervention to improve their health.
In her episode, the native of Shreveport, in Louisiana, shared her emotional history and the trauma that shaped her relationship with food. The youngest of three children, Lato said she started to turn to food for comfort after several events that change life. Her mother suddenly died at the age of 12 and her father moved away shortly after being with another woman.
At just 15 years old, she started living alone after her father co-signed an apartment for her. During her episode, she talked about the challenges of the loss of her support system for a young age and the way this has contributed to her health difficulties over time.
A trip farted by love and loss
Lato seal My 600 LB. Life In the hope of changing her life so that she can descend the aisle and marry her fiancé, Daune. According to the Shreveport Times, Latonya Motivation was not only linked to health but rooted in personal objectives and dreams.
However, his journey has encountered obstacles. She shared that the death of her brother just before the start of filming deeply impacted her emotionally and embarrassed her progress in weight loss.
Despite the reverse, Lato has remained full of hope. “I am back with my trainer, I adjust a diet and my weight drops,” she told Shreveport Times in 2023. “I also get closer to my family so that I can lower my weight and have myself operated.”
Current health battles and plea to get help
In February 2024, Lato Launched a GoFundme campaign to raise funds for medical expenses, revealing that it had become bedridden in June due to the worsening of health conditions and had reached near its highest weight of 740 pounds.
“I worked extremely hard to drop it,” she wrote on the fundraising page. “My trip with weight difficulties was long and difficult. In 2022, I was presented on my life of 600 lb, where I started at 531 pounds and I worked hard to reach 505 pounds. However, after the broadcast of the series, I underwent an overwhelming reward, which sent me a deep depression. My mental health has suffered and I was afraid to undergo weight loss surgery. ”.
Lato Also revealed that in 2023, she moved to Houston to start again, but found herself in an abusive relationship while simultaneously treating the diagnosis of cancer of her father.
“Unable to do emotional and physical toll, I went home to Louisiana. Unfortunately, my health continued to decline, and I developed severe nerve pain of sciatica, which caused extreme stomach cramps,” she wrote. “I was prescribed fentanyl, but my body rejected the medication, which led me to start therapy. Now, I am completely literary and unable to go to the hospital because the EMT say that transporting me would be a risk of fire because of my weight. “
A passion to help young women
Despite his personal difficulties, Lato was passionate about the support of young people, especially girls with foster family. Based on her own experience of growing up without a stable house, she worked to make a difference in her community.
“All my life, I took care of young girls and helped support them, to pass them to school, to help them with their children and to encourage them and to be there for them,” she said in 2023. “There are so many young girls who lost their two parents, going through what I experienced in adolescence and not to have somewhere to go.”
At the time, Lato shared aspirations to found a group of girls at the home of girls and plan a future wedding. Despite the challenges it was confronted with, she often stressed the importance of resilience and self -esteem.
“Life can take a tour and you have to be positive and remember that you are special, you are someone,” she said.
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Raissa Asunbo is a tea content editor. She lives in Toronto, Canada and likes to read, watch movies, travel and spend time with her family.
