What Happened To Lexi Reed? Wight Loss Influencer Hospitalized After Organ Failure
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Lexi Reed, an influencer who specializes in weight loss, has been admitted to the hospital and is recovering from a ventilator. A medically induced coma was kept on the 31-year-old’s, her husband Danny revealed on Instagram on Thursday.
Her medical bills will not be covered by insurance, as she has been kept on dialysis.
She explained to her Instagram followers that she was constantly sick and couldn’t eat anything. In addition to these symptoms, Lexi started acting differently, which prompted her to be admitted to the ICU. It was also revealed that Reed’s organs were failing.
Among the doctors’ advice to Danny was: “If I had waited, it is possible she would have died.” Reed’s family has not revealed the reason for Reed’s organ failure.
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Who is Lexi Reed?
Lexi Reed is best known for documenting her two-year weight loss journey on Instagram. By maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly, she lost 312 pounds naturally.
In the past year, the Indiana native has amassed 1.2 million followers on Instagram where she has documented her health journey. Using the handle @fatgirlfedup, Lexi Reed shares her life on the social media platform. Her friends had suggested that she keep her weight loss goal as a New Year’s resolution in 2016.
The Instagram influencer also runs a site called DietBet, where participants challenge one another to lose weight. During the journey, there is also money at stake, keeping people motivated.
During an interview with People magazine in 2018, Reed acknowledged that she was challenged to stay away from soda, alcohol, and eating out and cheat meals for 30 days. In an interview with the magazine, she said: “We started cooking, prepping meals, and tracking our calories.”
Following her weight loss journey, Lexi Reed underwent skin removal surgery to remove the remnants of loose skin. As part of her treatment, she had it removed from her stomach and planned to remove more later.
After covid became a thing, she shared that the pandemic put a halt to her weight loss journey. She shared a picture of herself when she was at her heaviest last September. She feared she would not make it to her 30th birthday and would never be able to return to where she was. Lexi said that she was still glad to be alive.
Earlier this month, she published a new weight loss game on Instagram for 2022 in her last Instagram post before her health update.
Ankita Khanrah
Ankita Khanrah is a second-year student of the Master of Communication and Journalism (Integrated) programme at the School of Mass Communication, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar.
