Posted on 04/06/2020 9:48:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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James King, whose story was told in a 2017 episode of the TLC docuseries My 600-lb. Life, has died. He was 49. King died April 3 at Saint Thomas Midtown in Nashville. No cause of death was revealed, but King had numerous health issues.
King was profiled in a Season 5 episode of My 600-lb. Life, that aired in March 2017. With King weighing in at nearly 800 pounds, the episode focused on his attempts to get down to 600 so he could have potentially life-saving gastric bypass surgery. He made some return visits to the show, ultimately topping 840 pounds in 2018.
Watch a clip about his story above.
TLC posted a tribute to King on Twitter today: “TLC was deeply saddened by the loss of James King, who shared his weight-loss journey on My 600lb Life. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time.”
TLC Network ✔ @TLC TLC was deeply saddened by the loss of James King, who shared his weight-loss journey on My 600lb Life. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time.
34 11:48 AM - Apr 6, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy See TLC Network's other Tweets King was born on June 2, 1970, in Paducah, KY. He and his brother were raised by their father; King said on the show, “I only saw my mother three times during my childhood, and she was drunk every time, so my dad took care of us.” He later reconnected with his mother, “and I felt that something that had been missing from my life wasn’t missing as much anymore.”
But his mother died a few months later. While he was attending her funeral, he said, “We got a phone call that our family home had burned down, and I lost just about everything I had in a single day.” He depression became so bad, he said, that he couldn’t even go to school: “It seems like all I wanted to do was eat.”
King is survived by his wife, Lisa; father, Donald; a brother, Donald; four daughters and two sons; and 19 grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are being kept private, according to Milner & Orr Funeral Home.
RIP
600 Lb’s? What went wrong?
I’ve never seen it, but I bet these shows encourage their weight gain.
I could tell you many stories...of young people morbidly obese..
He'll be added to the coronavirus death toll.
I didn’t watch his story on TV. I’m reading about it here.
One surprise: He had SIX children!
I don’t know if he was siring children while he was bedridden or what? It takes a long time to gain up to 840lbs, so he must have been super-sized during that time.
I guess that appealed to certain women. Amazing.
I rather doubt that he was ‘A Missionary Man’.
That being said, addictive personalities are often inheirited. I will be some of his kids have similar tendencies to over do or over indulge in certain aspects.
No, it doesn’t. I feel ill watching these people. Watching the show helped motivate my own weight loss.
Sad, RIP James.
Dale the Whale is one as well.
Remarkable he made it to nearly 50 with that weight.
RIP.
He was over 800 lbs at times. Dr now gave him a protein rich diet, but he ordered Chinese and told the wife the rice that was prohibited didn’t count because it was frriiiieeeed riiiiiccccce
Monk? lol
Yes.
A Dale The Whale episode is on now.
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