Lanoise,
born in Haiti, started gaining weight aged 16, following the birth of her
first
daughter, Witelane. I used to be skinny but after I had my first baby I got so
big.’ she told Asiantown.net.
As her weight skyrocketed to more than 600 lbs,
she spent her days sitting in bed wrapped in sheets as she couldn’t find
clothes to fit. She first came to the media’s attention in 2010 when she was
forced to stay in Haiti for three months after the earthquake, because she was
too heavy for commercial airlines.
Instead she
was forced to travel back to the U.S. in a military cargo plane, she was
virtually housebound for almost two decades with her daughters washing, feeding
and caring for her.
Despite
doctor’s orders to eat healthier, she continued to indulge in her
favorite Haitian dishes and sprinkled her meals with
appetite-suppressing powder, wrongly thinking it would counteract the
calories.
She died in
March, after being given less than a year to live by doctor’s who had been
waiting to give her potentially life- saving stomach surgery.
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