What Happened To Charity Pierce After My 600-Lb Life Season 3?
My 600-Lb Life’s Charity Pierce Had Some Setbacks After Skin Surgery
Dr. Now Had To Remove 38 Pounds of Extra Skin
A 2016 My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? episode shared the second year of Charity’s weight loss journey. She continuously developed cellulitis infections and, as a result, had to be treated in the hospital. She had another skin surgery, during which Dr. Now removed 38 pounds of hanging tissue from her stomach. She had to stay in the hospital for over two months after the surgery. A few months later, the skin infection returned, and she had to have surgery to avoid developing septic shock.
My 600-Lb Life’s Charity Daughter Joined Dr. Now’s Program
Charly Lost Weight Too
Charly, who also had a food addiction, was gaining weight as well. She was up to 390 pounds but lost 14 by the end of the My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? 2016 episode. Charity and Charly went to a therapist together to learn how to navigate changing their relationship from caregiver and patient to mother and child.
At the end of the My 600-lb Life episode, Charity was down to 338 pounds, with a total weight loss of 440 pounds. A 2017 My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? episode revealed that Charly had decided to become Dr. Now’s patient. She was able to qualify for bariatric surgery.
My 600-Lb Life’s Charity Traveled Home To Iowa & Her Relationship Ended
Tony Cheated On Charity
In a 2019 follow-up of the My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? episode, Charity, Tony, and Charly traveled back home to Iowa to visit their family. She was finally able to have a memorial for her mother. While they were in Iowa, Tony began a relationship with Charity’s sister, which caused Charity to become depressed.
She turned to food, alcohol, and cigarettes. However, Charity was able to recover and lost 29 pounds despite finding out that her sister was pregnant with Tony’s baby. The My 600-lb Life star lost 41 pounds, dropping to 335 pounds. Dr. Now approved Charity for another skin removal surgery and Charly for weight loss surgery.
My 600-Lb Life’s Charity Overdosed On Painkillers After Her Skin Surgery
She Had Secret Painkillers With Her
In her 2019 My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? episode, Charity had a third skin surgery, during which 15.2 pounds of excess skin was removed from her leg. She begged Dr. Now for more painkillers, but he knew that she did not need them. Charity had snuck painkillers into the hospital and became unresponsive and stopped breathing when she overdosed on them. Dr. Now was able to save her life, but she lost his trust.
My 600-Lb Life’s Charity & Charly Kept The Weight Off
Charity & Charly Has Relationship Ups And Downs
A 2020 My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? episode revealed that Charity and Charly were estranged when Charly moved back to Iowa without her mother to break their unhealthy dynamic. Charly lost 90 pounds on her own. Charity began drinking again. She eventually moved back to Iowa as well, and she and Charly reunited. Charity stopped drinking and began Dr. Now’s program again. At the end of the My 600-lb Life episode, she was under 300 pounds.
My 600-Lb Life’s Charity Battled Kidney Cancer
Charity Is On The Mend
In a March 2020 Facebook post, Charity announced that she found out in December 2019 that she had kidney cancer. She had her kidney removed on March 2 to prevent the cancer from spreading to other organs in her body. Charity wrote that she was recovering at home. Her Facebook page indicates that she’s keeping the weight off, and spends time with Charly.
My 600-Lb Life’s Charly Is Engaged & Had A Baby
Charly Has A Baby In October 2023
Charly also was able to keep the weight off. According to her Facebook page, she got engaged in January 2022 and gave birth to a daughter in May 2022. In March 2023, Charity from the My 600-lb Life series announced that Charly is expecting another baby due in October 2023. Charity hasn’t updated her fans on Charly and her new baby since she gave birth late last year.
What Is Charity Up To In 2024?
Charity Has Updated Her Social Media
There isn’t much more news about Charity in 2024. The most recent thing she posted was on Facebook from July 25, 2023. In the post, Charity asked her followers to keep sending her “Stars,” which helps her earn money, so she could keep making content her fans enjoy. She didn’t elaborate on how these stars help her, but it seems like her fans continued to help her out. It seems Charity is using her newfound fame to make some money for herself, her daughter, and her grandchild. Charity has always put family first and will continue to do so in 2024.
In the comment section of the post, several of Charity’s fans left her well wishes, called her an inspiration, and even asked how she was doing. While she didn’t answer back, Charity likely saw the kind messages from her fans. The post before this was from March 2020, when Charity revealed she had kidney cancer. She has not given an update on how she’s doing as of late, but it seems like she is on the mend and has beat the disease. Charity also didn’t let her troubles cause her to gain weight, as she’s still down almost 540 pounds.
Charity had been through a lot both on and off My 600-lb Life. However, since she’s put her mind to losing weight and being a better version of herself, Charity is thriving in 2024. Hopefully, she keeps this up and continues to be the best she can be.
440-Pound Woman Trapped in Basement by Her Weight
TLC show features struggles of those who are morbidly obese.
Olivia was a middle-aged woman, trapped in her parents’ basement by her obesity. There she remained house-bound, as relatives brought her food.
“I secluded myself from the world,” she told ABCNews.com. “I didn’t want to be seen by society any more. All I did was either be on the computer, watch TV or eat.”
The 47-year-old former computer specialist weighed in at 440 pounds and had been teased most of her life for her weight. At the age of 12, she weighed 180 pounds.
A 2010 flood forced her out of the house and she lost everything she owned. Olivia, who did not want to reveal her last name, said she was so depressed she tried to kill herself by swallowing a handful of painkillers.
She credits her twin sister with saving her life by calling paramedics, and vowed after that catastrophic event to transform her life by losing weight.
Her inspiring and transformational story is part of an eight-part television series, “My 600-Pound Life,” which continues its second season on TLC on Jan. 7.
In the series opener, women like Olivia tell stories of how they became morbidly obese, why they decided to make the change, their traumatic surgery and recovery and how all those who love them, including their enablers, have coped.
Today, after moving to Texas to live with her brother and have gastric surgery, Olivia weights 256 pounds. But her weight is still disabling: She has lympedema in her legs, which makes walking painful. Still, she is leading a healthier lifestyle and hopes to reach the goal of 180 pounds.
Olivia grew up in Cicero, Ill., in a dysfunctional family and was sexually abused by a cousin at the age of 7. “I grew up in an abusive house,” she said. “My stepfather was not sexually abusive, but he did hit us.”
One of only a handful of Hispanics at her high school, Olivia dropped out because of bullying and continued on a path of eating to morbid obesity.
She confined herself to her parents’ Illinois basement where they enabled her obesity, bringing her cookies, cakes — anything she wanted. Only her twin sister refused and brought healthy food.
Then one day three years ago the basement flooded.
“I was half-way up to my waist in water,” said Olivia. “I had been depressed and my parents were separated, and I was alone and trapped. I knew I would have to pull myself high up. … I fell asleep and the next thing you know, I had collapsed in black, dirty water. I didn’t think twice about putting my feet in the water with the electricity running through the house.”
Knowing she had to get out, Olivia called her twin sister, who rescued her. But the event triggered a suicide attempt, and she said she took “a cocktail of pills — Vidocin, 50 of them.”
By the time the paramedics got there, Olivia was unconscious.
After hitting rock bottom, she saw a TV program about an obese woman named “Myra,” who lost weight. Between that and her desperate effort to kill herself, Olivia said she saw the light: “It was being in the hospital and seeing my twin’s face.”
“Myra posted something on Facebook about looking for [TLC] castmembers with obesity problems and I emailed her,” said Olivia. “She said my life would be exposed — they would film everything I did. But I was willing to do whatever it takes. I had tried suicide and I wasn’t going to do that again.”
She left Illinois and flew to Houston where she sought the help of a gastro surgeon and began filming for TLC’s, “My 600-Pound Life.”
Since 2010, Olivia has lost 233 pounds and intends to lose more.
“I just set my mind to it,” she said. “It was determination, wanting to lose weight. I am Mexican and we eat tortillas and rice and beans, the food that makes you gain weight. I just stopped eating all that.”
On June 3, Olivia she had gastric sleeve surgery. Now, she misses her twin sister, but lives with her brother and wife in Katy, Texas.
“I feel wonderful,” she said. “I feel as if I have been reborn. I can go out and face the world. There is nothing to scare me or bother me. Nothing stops me now.”
As for others seeking to lose weight, Olivia said: “Look for help, and if you can’t find it, find me and I will try to get you help. Don’t be afraid. And never give up. I didn’t want to sit at home in my pity chair — I had to get off and move. I wanted to live.”
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