Barbara Thore Obituary, Cause of Death: How Did Barbara Thore Die? On Wednesday, Whitney Thore wrote on Instagram that her mother had died. Barbara “Babs” Thore was probably best known as Whitney’s mom on the TLC show My Big Fat Fabulous Life. She was in the 76th year of her life.
Barbara Thore Obituary, Cause of Death: How Did Barbara Thore Die?
Whitney reports that her Barbara Thore passed away at 10:32 p.m. “Just as the credits rolled on her favorite movie” on Wednesday, which is also when Whitney was born almost 40 years ago.
Whitney told everyone that her mother has cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a disease that gets worse over time and can’t be cured. People with this disease are more likely to have a brain hemorrhage, a stroke, or dementia. In 2017, Barbara Thore had her first stroke. The last one she had was on November 13.
Nick Holly, who ran the show for a long time and was one of the people who made it, died at the age of 51.
Whitney wrote;
“My mother died last night just as the credits rolled on her favorite movie. Dad, Hunter, and I held her as she took her last breaths. It was 10:32pm, the same exact time she brought me into this world almost forty years ago.
My mom had cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which is an untreatable progressive condition caused by proteins in the blood vessels of the brain that can cause dementia, seizures, or like in my mom’s case, brain bleeding (hemorrhagic strokes). When mom had her first stroke in 2017, we were told of this and we knew that more strokes would eventually be inevitable. Mom’s second stroke was December 28, 2021 and her last was November 13, 2022.
My mother is our family’s greatest gift. We could never love, revere, or value another person more. If you’re reading this, you’re familiar with her magic: her southern charm, her hilarious sense of humor, her well-timed witty remarks, her beauty, and her ability to make everyone around her feel comfortable and cared for. But what you can’t possibly understand is the extent of my mother’s love — what you may have witnessed and felt through a TV screen is a minute fraction that, even if multiplied by a million, wouldn’t come close to “real life.” That’s how enormous, how generous, and how all-encompassing my mother’s love was. I am the luckiest person on the planet to have been hers for almost 39 years.
We want to thank you for loving our mother. She delighted in her newfound television career more than we can describe! It gave her such a sense of purpose and excitement and something to look forward to every time the crew came around. This last year navigating life after her second stroke was, perhaps surprisingly, the best of our lives. We never had more fun or laughed as much as we did the past year. The support from all of you made her feel so loved and encouraged. We are unbelievably thankful that we’ve been able to share her with you and it is our hope that her memory will continue to be a source of comfort and happiness for the rest of your lives, just as it will be for ours.
I love you, Mommy.”
As Barbara Thore’s health got worse, the TLC show talked about it. The most recent episode of the show’s 10th season was about Thore’s stay in the hospital after one of her strokes and her eventual release.
In October, the 12 episodes of the tenth season of My Big Fabulous Life came to an end. So far, there has been no sign that Season 10 will be picked up for the 12th season.
