My Big Fat Fabulous Life's Whitney Way Thore posted an affectional tribute to her mother, Barbara Thore, who died connected Dec. 7. Scroll down to work her heartbreaking post.
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Whitney Way Thore has shared the devastating quality that her ma Barbara Thore passed away.
The My Big Fat Fabulous Life star shared that her parent had died peacefully astatine location surrounded by Whitney, her begetter Glenn and brother Hunter. She was 76.
"Rest In Peace, Sweet Mommy. June 22, 1946—December 7, 2022," Whitney captioned a video featuring photos of Barbara. "My parent died past nighttime conscionable arsenic the credits rolled connected her favourite movie. Dad, Hunter, and I held her arsenic she took her past breaths. It was 10:32pm, the aforesaid nonstop clip she brought maine into this satellite astir forty years ago."
Barbara had cerebral amyloid angiopathy, an untreatable information that causes dementia, seizures and strokes. Whitney said her ma had 3 strokes implicit the past 5 years, including 2 successful the past 12 months.
"My parent is our family's top gift," she continued. "We could ne'er love, revere, oregon worth different idiosyncratic more. If you're speechmaking this, you're acquainted with her magic: her confederate charm, her hilarious consciousness of humor, her well-timed witty remarks, her beauty, and her quality to marque everyone astir her consciousness comfy and cared for."
"This past twelvemonth navigating beingness aft her 2nd changeable was, possibly surprisingly, the champion of our lives," the 39-year-old said. "We ne'er had much amusive oregon laughed arsenic overmuch arsenic we did the past year. The enactment from each of you made her consciousness truthful loved and encouraged."
Barbara has appeared on My Big Fat Fabulous Life since it premiered successful 2015. During the latest play of the show, Whitney and her ma allowed cameras to seizure Barbara's wellness and her betterment pursuing a stroke.
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"She delighted successful her newfound tv vocation much than we tin describe," Whitney said. "It gave her specified a consciousness of intent and excitement and thing to look guardant to each clip the unit came around."
"We are unbelievably thankful that we've been capable to stock her with you," she concluded. "And it is our anticipation that her representation volition proceed to beryllium a root of comfortableness and happiness for the remainder of your lives, conscionable arsenic it volition beryllium for ours."
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