My Big Fat Fabulous Life star Whitney Thore has shared the sad news that her mother has died.
Whitney confirmed that her mum Barbara Thore passed away at the age of 76 from cerebral amyloid angiopathy – a condition that caused a series of strokes in her later years.
The 38 year old reality star shared the news on Instagram, alongside a slideshow of photos of the pair and a recording of the mother-daughter duo speaking.
She said that her mum passed away surrounded by family as they watched her favourite film.
Whitney wrote: “My mother died last night just as the credits rolled on her favorite movie. Dad, Hunter, and I held her as she took her last breaths.
“It was 10:32pm, the same exact time she brought me into this world almost forty years ago.”
In a lengthy post, Whitney then detailed the health issues that her mother had been experiencing, as well as praising her " southern charm", "hilarious sense of humor" and 'beauty".
"My mom had cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which is an untreatable progressive condition caused by proteins in the blood vessels of the brain that can cause dementia, seizures, or like in my mom’s case, brain bleeding (hemorrhagic strokes)," she explained.
“When mom had her first stroke in 2017, we were told of this and we knew that more strokes would eventually be inevitable. Mom’s second stroke was December 28, 2021 and her last was November 13, 2022.”
In the moving statement, Whitney described her mum a as her "family's greatest gift", adding that they "could never love, revere, or value another person more".
She wrote: "But what you can’t possibly understand is the extent of my mother’s love — what you may have witnessed and felt through a TV screen is a minute fraction that, even if multiplied by a million, wouldn’t come close to 'real life'. That’s how enormous, how generous, and how all-encompassing my mother’s love was. I am the luckiest person on the planet to have been hers for almost 39 years.
"This last year navigating life after her second stroke was, perhaps surprisingly, the best of our lives," she continued. "We never had more fun or laughed as much as we did the past year."
She added that it was her family's "hope that her memory will continue to be a source of comfort and happiness for the rest of your lives, just as it will be for ours.
Whitney concluded with a final message to Barbara: "I love you, Mommy".
Whitney starred with her mother Barbara in My Big Fat Fabulous Life, with her mum appearing in every season since its launch in 2015 to its final season earlier this year.
In addition to her daughter, Barbara is survived by her husband Glenn and their son Hunter, both of whom had regular appearances on the reality TV series.
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