Type 1 is not fixed by controlling weight.
I know that. Nothing will fix type 1. I have two children with type 1.
Your health and immune system is already compromised with type 1. To let yourself get fat, as Sotomayor has done, compounds your health problems - those associated with being a diabetic on top of those associated with being fat.
Add to that her age, which brings its own set of health risks.
One would think that, as an educated and very wise Latina, she would know all this and, in her infinite wisdom, lose weight and improve her health.