My 600-Lb. Life star Dolly Martinez dies at age 30 as sister announces passing with heartbreaking tribute

Dolly Martinez, who appeared on season 10 of My 600-Lb. Life, has died at just 30-years-old. 

Dolly’s sister Lindsey Cooper announced the loss with a touching tribute praising the woman who ‘could light up any room.’ 

‘It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of my beautiful sister, Dolly,’ she began in a post uploaded to Facebook. ‘Dolly had the brightest personality she could light up any room with her laughter, her kindness, and her loving spirit. She had a way of making everyone feel special, and her warmth will stay with us forever.

‘While our hearts are broken here, I find comfort in knowing she is now reunited with our dad in heaven. I can only imagine the joy of that reunion.

‘Rest peacefully, Dolly. You will always be loved, always be missed, and never forgotten.’

Dolly weighed 593 pounds when she appeared on the TLC series and sought the help of Dr. Now to lose the weight. 

She lost 40 pounds but ultimately did not qualify for weight loss surgery. 

Dolly said food was the ‘only thing powerful enough to distract me from darker thoughts.’

‘Food is my go-to drug that takes my pain away,’ she said and called it ‘more than just a pleasure, it’s my reason for existing.’

‘I can’t wait for the first bite of something that will make me forget about all the misery of my life,’ she said. ‘Food has caused all of the things I hate about my life but it’s the only thing I’ve ever had to make me feel good.’

Dolly’s eating issues began long ago.  

‘Ever since I can remember, food was just a coping thing… It just made me happy. It still does. Food just makes me happy.’

On the show, Dolly recalled being raised by her single mother after her father left the family due to his drug addiction.

‘I was left alone a lot and that’s how it started, my relationship with food,’ she said.

‘Whenever I would think of my dad, I would turn to food and I liked the feeling I had when I was eating.’