Barbara “Babs” Thore, perhaps finest often called Whitney’s mother on TLC’s My Huge Fats Fabulous Life, died Wednesday, her daughter introduced on Instagram. She was 76.

Whitney wrote that her mother died at 10:32 PM Wednesday, “simply because the credit rolled on her favourite film” and likewise the precise time Whitney was born almost 40 years in the past.

Whitney revealed her mother had been identified with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, an untreatable progressive situation that may trigger mind bleeding, strokes and dementia. She started having strokes in 2017 and most lately suffered a stroke on November 13.

“My mom is our household’s best present,” Whitney wrote. “We may by no means love, revere, or worth one other particular person extra. For those who’re studying this, you’re aware of her magic: her southern appeal, her hilarious humorousness, her well-timed witty remarks, her magnificence, and her means to make everybody round her really feel snug and cared for. However what you’ll be able to’t probably perceive is the extent of my mom’s love — what you could have witnessed and felt by means of a TV display is a minute fraction that, even when multiplied by 1,000,000, wouldn’t come near ‘actual life.’”

Thore’s well being struggles had been addressed on the TLC present as her illness progressed. The newest tenth season chronicled Thore’s restoration and launch from the hospital after struggling considered one of her strokes.

The 12-episode tenth season of My Huge Fabulous Life concluded in October. There was no phrase on whether or not will probably be renewed for an eleventh season.