{"id":2371605,"date":"2026-04-13T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2371605"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:38:10","slug":"my-600-lb-life-star-dolly-martinezs-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/my-600-lb-life-star-dolly-martinezs-cause-of-death-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My 600-Lb. Life&#8217; star Dolly Martinez&#8217;s cause of death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cMy 600-Lb. Life\u201d star Dolly Martinez <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/12\/celebrity-news\/my-600-lb-life-star-dolly-martinez-dies-at-age-30\/\">died of congestive heart failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez had been sick for a while with medical issues, Martinez\u2019s mom, Staci Thurman,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/13\/dolly-martinez-cause-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told TMZ<\/a> Monday, adding that she went to the hospital on March 29 with \u201cfluid on her heart and lungs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was put into a medically induced coma and placed on a ventilator the next day, but never recovered,\u201d Thurman explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8866629\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<figcaption>\u201cMy 600-Lb. Life\u201d star Dolly Martinez (seen above) died of heart failure. <span class=\"credit\">Facebook\/Dolly Fay Richards<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Thurman noted that her daughter was surrounded by friends and family\u00a0when she died, including her sister,\u00a0Lindsey Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper was the one to announce the news of her passing at age 30 via Facebook on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDolly had the brightest personality she could light up any room with her laughter, her kindness, and her loving spirit,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lindsey.richards.7927\/posts\/pfbid0NbQX4Q9urxxb1Nq32qJr3YN2ViNu66NNLNorUNP9NdKMLbdDa9f996NjYb6QvTNAl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cooper wrote<\/a>. \u201cShe had a way of making everyone feel special, and her warmth will stay with us forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our hearts are broken here, I find comfort in knowing she is now reunited with our dad in heaven. I can only imagine the joy of that reunion,\u201d she added. \u201cRest peacefully, Dolly. You will always be loved, always be missed, and never forgotten. \u2764\ufe0f.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez appeared on Season 10 of TLC\u2019s \u201cMy 600-Lb. Life,\u201d which follows a year in the life of morbidly obese individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her episode documented her struggles with food addiction as well as mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>During the show, she was on supplemental oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>She did not get approved for weight-loss surgery at the end of the episode, but she did lose 40 pounds after weighing 593 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple people featured on the TLC reality series\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/02\/19\/my-600-lb-life-participant-sean-milliken-dead-at-29\/\">have died<\/a>, including Larry Myers, who passed away from a heart attack. Jr. back in June 2023.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/12\/celebrity-news\/my-600-lb-life-star-dolly-martinez-dies-at-age-30\/#\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy 600-Lb. Life\u201d star Dolly Martinez died of congestive heart failure. Martinez had been sick for a while with medical issues, Martinez\u2019s mom, Staci Thurman, told TMZ Monday, adding that she went to the hospital on March 29 with \u201cfluid on her heart and lungs.\u201d \u201cShe was put into a medically induced coma and placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2371606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,24758,43770],"class_list":["post-2371605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-reality-stars","tag-tlc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/My-600-Lb-Life-star-Dolly-Martinezs-cause-of-death-revealed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371607,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371605\/revisions\/2371607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}