HOUSTON, TX. (THECOUNT) — “My 600-lb Life” star Lisa Fleming has passed away, according to her daughter.

Fleming, 50, died Thursday in Houston, according to online reporting.

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Her daughter posted on Facebook about Fleming’s death, saying she held her mother’s hand for hours after she passed. “I am truly at a loss for words right now. God knows I wanted you to hold on until I got here but He knew what was best for me. I didn’t need to see you like that,” Danielle Fleming wrote. In the heart-wrenching episode, she talked about struggling with her weight after witnessing her brother’s murder. At one point, her daughter found maggots in the folds of Fleming’s skin. source

Lisa Fleming lost 200 pounds after the show and her death was not connected to her weight, Danielle Fleming told TMZ.

“At the end, she was sick and her body was tired,” she said.

No official cause of death has been released.