My 600-lb Life star Latonya Pottain has passed away aged 40 following congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n
She died on Saturday May 17th at a hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, according to the Natchitoches Parish Coroner\u2019s Office. TMZ<\/a> broke the news that her preliminary autopsy found that she died from congestive heart failure, with Us Weekly<\/a> confirming her death.<\/p>\n A final autopsy report has yet to be completed.<\/p>\n Latonya Pottain\u2019s brother told TMZ that the My 600-lb Life star was visited by her family before her death. He claimed she was struggling to breathe and looked unwell.<\/p>\n The family later received a call from a nurse who told them that Latonya had called an ambulance for herself and was taken to hospital for cardiac arrest where she sadly passed.<\/p>\n Latonya appeared on My 600-lb Life in 2023, during the 11th season of the show, weighing around 632lbs and had become bedbound.<\/p>\n She was diagnosed with a dangerous heart issue during the show and was eventually told that she could no longer be helped after she was unable to lose the weight she was required to.<\/p>\n A year ago she asked people to “pray for her”, writing on Facebook: “Y\u2019all pray for me my heart not working right and there is nothing more the doctors can do here in Louisiana please keep me lifted.”<\/p>\n For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like\u00a0<\/i>Reality Shrine<\/a><\/i>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/i>Facebook<\/a><\/i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She died from congestive heart failure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":20758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1627],"class_list":["post-20753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-my-600-lb-life"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/05\/20\/my-600-lb-star-latonya-pottain-has-passed-away-after-asking-people-to-pray-for-her\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"My 600-lb star Latonya Pottain has passed away, after asking people to ‘pray for her’","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/05\/20\/my-600-lb-star-latonya-pottain-has-passed-away-after-asking-people-to-pray-for-her\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/05\/20\/my-600-lb-star-latonya-pottain-has-passed-away-after-asking-people-to-pray-for-her\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-11-3-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-11-3.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["my 600-lb life"],"dateCreated":"2025-05-20T07:27:38Z","datePublished":"2025-05-20T07:27:38Z","dateModified":"2025-05-20T07:27:38Z"},"rendered":"