My 600-Lb. Life star Dolly Martinez has passed away, her sister has announced.
The 30-year-old, who appeared on the tenth season of the popular TLC show, passed away on Saturday (11 April).
Her sibling Lindsey Cooper shared the sad news in a social media post paying tribute to her 'beautiful sister', one day after she told fans Martinez was 'fighting for her life'.
"It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of my beautiful sister, Dolly," Cooper said. "Dolly had the brightest personality she could light up any room with her laughter, her kindness, and her loving spirit.
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"She had a way of making everyone feel special, and her warmth will stay with us forever.
"While our hearts are broken here, I find comfort in knowing she is now reunited with our dad in heaven. I can only imagine the joy of that reunion.”
"Rest peacefully, Dolly. You will always be loved, always be missed, and never forgotten."
No further information about her death has yet been revealed.
However, a short time before she made the announcement, Cooper shared that her sister was in hospital.
"Today is national siblings day and it for sure was a hard one," she wrote in a Facebook post.
"I haven’t made any post or let many people know but my sister Dolly is in the hospital and is fighting for her life," Cooper said. "At this time I ask for prayers and privacy as we as a family navigate through this hard time."
In another post shared on Monday, Cooper urged people to 'remember there’s so much more to her than what was seen online or on TV'.
She wrote: "I know many people knew her from a show or TikTok, and that’s okay but please remember, there’s so much more to her than what was seen online or on TV. She was my sister first.
"She deserves peace, and she deserves kindness. And to everyone online being cruel and mean and attacking not only Dolly, who can no longer defend herself, but me and my family.
"From the bottom of my soul and as disrespectfully as possible, f**k all the way off."
Martinez was a memorable character who appeared on My 600-Lb. Life in January 2022, when she was 25-years-old.
She opened up about her battle with food addiction and her mental health struggles to viewers. At the time, she weighed 593 pounds and needed supplemental oxygen.
The TV star, from Texas, ultimately shed 40 pounds during the series but did not qualify to undergo weight loss surgery.
Cameras follow obese individuals for a year in My 600-Lb. Life and the show documents their journeys to lose weight and take back control of their health.
Pauline Potter, who appeared on on the third season of the reality show, passed away in November last year following a horrific car accident.
She earned a spot 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’.
Olivia Burke