Former ‘world’s heaviest woman’ and reality TV star dies after horrific accident
The once ‘world’s heaviest woman’ has died following a horrific accident at the age of 62.
Pauline Potter became famous after starring on the third season of the reality TV show My 600-Lb. Life back in 2015 on TLC.
The mum ended up landing a place in the Guinness Book of Records in July 2016 as the World’s Heaviest Living Woman. When measured in Sacramento, California, US, in July 2012, she weighed in at 293.6 kilograms and had attributed her weight issues to ‘her childhood, when she regularly had to go without food’.
In 2022, an account appearing to be Pauline shared that she was down to ‘223 pounds’ (101kg) as she wrote: “It feels so great to be able to not be reliant on someone else to do even the littlest things for me.”
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Her son, Dillon, recently shared an emotional video on YouTube to share the news she died on 27 November, nearly a year following an alleged serious car accident that left her with a number of lasting injuries.
“Unfortunately, my mom passed away this past Thursday, on Thanksgiving,” he announced, before listing a number of setbacks his mum had experienced to her health.
Dillon alleged that both of them were involved in a ‘bad car accident’ back in January when their vehicle is said to have collided with a ‘truck and trailer’ that were ‘stuck in the middle of the road’ along a dark, two-lane highway.
He explained that he is working on receiving compensation and that his injuries ‘weren’t really that severe’. However, he claims Pauline suffered injuries to her hand, wrist and leg and later found that she had broken her ribs.
He says his mum suffered ‘severe chest pain’ and was suffering to keep food down, so were repeatedly going to hospital before a visit to the ER in the summer.
Initially doctors apparently ‘couldn’t find anything wrong’.
However, a test in August found a ‘blockage in her oesophagus’, and that was on top of her also catching Covid.
In hospital, Pauline then developed a back wound which apparently became infected and complicated her chance of surgery.
Dillon said she had begun to show signs of heart failure and respiratory failure, adding: “We knew there was a very strong chance she might not make it through this.”
Saying that Pauline had gone into hospice care at a family home on 19 November, he did not given an official cause of death for his mum.
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Jess Battison