{"id":42523,"date":"2025-05-20T04:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42523"},"modified":"2025-05-20T04:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:35:47","slug":"my-600-lb-life-star-latonya-pottain-dies-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42523","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My 600-Lb. Life Star\u2019 Latonya Pottain dies at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Latonya Pottain, a former star of \u201cMy 600-Lb. Life,\u201d has died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain passed away May 17 at Christus Highland Medical Center at age 40 in Shreveport, Louisiana, according to a Natchitoches Parish Coroner\u2019s Office report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain\u2019s preliminary cause of death was listed as acute on chronic congestive heart failure and her manner of her death was listed as natural. A final autopsy is pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain appeared on Season 11 of the TLC reality series after she had struggled to lose weight for five years. During her time on the show, she opened up about how she had turned to food for comfort after losing her mother at a young age and after her father left the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain\u2019s death comes just two months after a GoFundMe<\/a> was created in February to help her seek medical treatment during \u201cthe most challenging time\u201d in her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m currently getting close to my highest weight of 740 pounds and I worked extremely hard to get it down. Now I currently weigh about 705 pounds and have been bedridden since June 2024 due to severe health issues,\u201d Pottain wrote in the fundraiser\u2019s text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain said she weighed 531 pounds at the beginning of her season of \u201cMy 600-Lb. Life\u201d and \u201cworked hard to get down to 505 pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, after the show aired, I experienced overwhelming backlash, which sent me into a deep depression,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy mental health suffered, and I became fearful of undergoing weight loss surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain added that in 2023 she moved to Houston for a fresh start, but ended up in an \u201cabusive relationship\u201d at the same time that her father was diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnable to take the emotional and physical toll, I returned home to Louisiana,\u201d she wrote. \u201cUnfortunately, my health continued to decline, and I developed severe sciatica nerve pain, which caused extreme stomach cramps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain said she began therapy after her body \u201crejected\u201d the prescription pain medicine fentanyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow, I am completely bedridden and unable to get to the hospital because EMTs say transporting me would be a fire hazard due to my weight,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWithout the ability to work, I have no income to purchase a car or arrange for special medical transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pottain said she hoped to be able to raise enough funds to support herself and also to afford medical transportation to receive the medical care she required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis has been an incredibly difficult journey,\u201d she wrote, \u201cand I truly want to fight for my health and my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latonya Pottain, a former star of \u201cMy 600-Lb. Life,\u201d has died. Pottain passed away May 17 at Christus Highland Medical Center at age 40 in Shreveport, Louisiana, according to a Natchitoches Parish Coroner\u2019s Office report. Pottain\u2019s preliminary cause of death was listed as acute on chronic congestive heart failure and her manner of her death […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[33361,3111,33362,8955],"class_list":["post-42523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-my-600-lb-life","tag-died","tag-latonia-botan","tag-starring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42525,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42523\/revisions\/42525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}