‘My 600-lb Life’ Star Latonya Pottain Dead at 40

Latonya Pottain — greatest identified for being featured on the truth TV present “My 600-lb Life” — has died of pure causes in Louisiana, TMZ has realized.

Pottain handed away Saturday night time at CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center in Shreveport, LA, in accordance with the Natchitoches Parish Coroner’s Office. The coroner tells us the preliminary post-mortem discovered that Pottain died from congestive coronary heart failure … however the ultimate post-mortem report has but to be accomplished.

Pottain’s brother additionally instructed TMZ  … relations visited Latonya at her dwelling Saturday morning, they usually seen she was having hassle respiratory. Her brother mentioned Pottain instructed them she was extraordinarily uncomfortable. On prime of that, she did not look effectively.

Her brother mentioned the household acquired a name later from a nurse who instructed them Latonya referred to as an ambulance to convey her to the hospital as a result of she was going into cardiac arrest, which led to her dying.

As chances are you’ll know, Pottain appeared on Season 11 of “My 600-lb Life,” and the present tracked her journey to reduce weight.

At one level, Dr. Younan Nowzaradan, AKA Dr. Now, broke the unhappy information to Latonya that he could not do something for her as a result of she failed to remain on her weight-loss program.

In reality, each time Pottain met with Dr. Now, she realized she had gained weight as an alternative of shedding kilos. The solely time she ever misplaced weight was when she was beforehand hospitalized with coronary heart points.

Pottain died Saturday at age 40.