My 600-lb Life star Coliesa McMillian died at age 41 after ‘complications’ from weight loss surgery

My 600-lb Life star Coliesa McMillian died at the age of 41 following ‘complications’ from surgery. 

Coliesa ‘passed away Tuesday at a hospital in Louisiana,’ according to her mother through TMZ. 

McMillian appeared on Season eight of the popular TLC program where morbidly obese patients receive life-saving surgeries.  

Her family noted that it would be ‘a very  long and difficult road ahead,’ but that she was recovering after suffering complications from surgery.  

A Facebook page setup to keep friends and family updated about her post-surgery wrote in June that she was back home ‘after being on life support and almost dying’ following gastric surgery. 

‘She stayed in Houston for a few weeks. Even though she has been on a long journey she has an even longer journey to go. She is a fighter. She is now confined to a bed 24/7. And is in a lot of pain. She can not do anything like she used to. But she is there.’ 

One of her daughters, Hannah, shared a tribute to her mother on Facebook.

‘Now y’all together,’ she wrote of her mother and her mom’s late fiance who died in a car collision. ‘These two my guardian angels. Imma miss you mom I already do!’ 

Coliesa was reportedly 643 lbs. when she appeared on show in March.

The mother-of four ‘decided to do the show after a lifetime of eating to deal with trauma in order to regain control of her life for her girls.’

She had a heart attack at the age of 39 and was ‘too big to do surgery on’ when she was taken to the hospital. 

‘I know I won’t survive another heart attack unless I lose weight,’ Coliesa said during a clip from her show.