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‘My 600-lb Life’ star Gina Krasley dead at 30: ‘My life’s been hard’
NY Post ^ | 8/6/2021 | Rob Bailey-Millado

Posted on 08/06/2021 10:17:19 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

Gina Krasley, known to reality TV viewers as the new star of TLC’s “My 600-lb Life,” has died. She was 30 years old.

Her official cause of death has not been announced, but she passed away Sunday at her home in Tuckerton, N.J., “surrounded by her loving family” at the time, according to her obituary.

Krasley joined the TLC series in 2020 — which chronicles the lives of obese people undergoing gastric bypass surgeries — and was featured in an episode presciently titled “Time Is Running Our For Gina,” which has nearly 1 million views on YouTube.

“My life’s been hard,” Krasley admitted in the heartrending introduction to the clip. “…I always felt my entire life like I was just pushed under the rug.”

She had recently posted social media videos about health struggles that had rendered her immobile with severe pain in her extremities.

“‘I remember what made me forget the pain of being abandoned was eating — and by the time I was 10, I was already over 150 pounds,” Krasley once said on the TLC show.

By 14, she weighed more than 300 pounds, yet she continued to turn to food as an “escape,” she said. “As I was getting closer to 500 pounds, it started to get harder to do things.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: krasley; krasleyobit; restinpeace; sosad
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To: lee martell

Watch the video. er... don’t.

She figured out she likes girls and got on a dating sight and found Beth, short for Bertha.

They haven’t had sex for two years.

Hope your not eating.


41 posted on 08/06/2021 10:51:54 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Drew68
Now being fat is beautiful?
Name a thing that you can't do?
Jumping jacks, run a mile, live past 42.

- Tom Macdonald, "People so Stupid"

https://youtu.be/I6FmwBPDT-w

42 posted on 08/06/2021 10:53:04 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: PGR88

Is this the show that has the doctor from Houston? He will tell them like it is without pulling his punches and then go after their enablers.


43 posted on 08/06/2021 10:53:50 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Here’s someone who had a similar challenge, met it head-on, and now owns a gym.

https://fitnessxpressions.com/about-us


44 posted on 08/06/2021 10:55:06 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I don’t get people watching these so called entertainment shows. I find them disgusting


45 posted on 08/06/2021 10:55:38 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Reily

We need some more Al Bundy.


46 posted on 08/06/2021 10:57:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rockvillem

Well said.


47 posted on 08/06/2021 10:59:48 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Jolla

Yes I agree that she brought it on herself and obesity shouldn’t be celebrated.

As a former fat person, however, I can’t help having compassion for these people. Addiction of any kind is a bitch. I thank God for my health now.


48 posted on 08/06/2021 11:02:16 AM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: Vaquero

I briefly watched a show that was about hoarders. After a few episodes, it got too depressing to continue watching.


49 posted on 08/06/2021 11:02:19 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Disambiguator

Wow, thanks for posting this.


50 posted on 08/06/2021 11:02:54 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Flaming Conservative
My husband is native American. Not much fat shaming, there, in most tribes.

That's because reservation life has got most of them eating white man's food--high fat, high carbohydrates. Under the original native culture they were more hunter-gatherer types and had higher protein diets.

I lived with Indians in Canada for two years and it was common for young Indian children to come into the house and scoop a handful of lard from the kitchen, sprinkle a little salt on it and just eat it straight. That can't be good for you.

51 posted on 08/06/2021 11:05:04 AM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
and by the time I was 10, I was already over 150 pounds,”

Sorry she had such incompetent parents.

52 posted on 08/06/2021 11:05:40 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Drew68

And all this while a virus that specifically makes it difficult for those that are obese to survive.


53 posted on 08/06/2021 11:09:15 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

wonder if toilets have a maximum load rating...


54 posted on 08/06/2021 11:09:55 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Had a friend die from an infection following GBS. She posted on FB from the hospital saying she was sick post op and the next day she was gone.


55 posted on 08/06/2021 11:10:08 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: dforest

She was 700 lbs when she started....dropped 300 lbs. She also sued for how she was treated.


56 posted on 08/06/2021 11:16:20 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: kaktuskid

Obese people who ‘emotionally eat’ generally do so to build ‘a wall of flesh’ to keep people away from hurting them.


57 posted on 08/06/2021 11:18:29 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: dware

There’s nothing “Beautiful” about obesity.


58 posted on 08/06/2021 11:21:17 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Either a motorcycle accident or COVID."

If she got on a motorcycle we would be burying the bike...

59 posted on 08/06/2021 11:22:23 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Food poisoning?

Kinda like calling drowning, water poisoning?


60 posted on 08/06/2021 11:23:42 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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