BREAKING NEWS My 600lb Life star Latonya Pottain dead at 40 as heartbreaking final hours are revealed
The reality TV personality, who appeared on season 11 of the show when she weighed 632lbs, died on Saturday, May 17 at CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, per TMZ.
The preliminary autopsy report found Pottain died from congestive heart failure, the Natchitoches Parish Coroner's Office revealed.
Pottain's brother said he and other family members had visited her at her home on Saturday morning and noticed she was having trouble breathing and told them she was 'extremely uncomfortable'. He added she didn't look well.
A nurse later called Pottain's brother to tell them Pottain had called an ambulance to bring her to the hospital because she was going into cardiac arrest, which led to her death.
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