What happened to influencer Lexi Reed?

What happened to influencer Lexi Reed?

03/22/2022

INFLUENCER Lexi Reed announced she is home after spending two months in the hospital with organ failure.

Reed is an Instagram phenomenon who has shed more than 300 pounds in less than a year and a half.

Who is influencer Lexi Reed?

Lexi Reed rose to fame in 2016 after documenting her remarkable weight loss journey on her Instagram account, @fatgirlfedup, in an effort to lose 312 pounds with her husband, Danny, who lost 95 pounds.

In an interview with People in 2018, Reed said, "A friend challenged us to 30 days of no eating out, cheat meals, soda or alcohol. 

"We started cooking, meal prepping, tracking our calories, and reading nutrition labels."

The couple shed a total of 407 pounds over the course of two years, while Lexi said that "it wasn't about the weight we lost, but the life we gained."

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What happened to influencer Lexi Reed?

Reed had been in the hospital since January 2022 with complete kidney failure but has since been released and is in stable condition.

Reed, 31, became ill in January and admitted herself to the hospital after repeatedly getting sick and being unable to keep food down.

Her husband, Danny, posted a photo to her Instagram account showing Reed hooked up to a ventilator in a hospital bed.

The caption said, “​​A few weeks ago Lexi kept getting sick and couldn’t keep any food down. 

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“She then started acting differently so I took her to the hospital where they admitted her into ICU, placed on a medically induced [coma], on a ventilator, and me that her organs started failing. 

“They also told me if I had waited it's possible she could have died. She is currently in dialysis, can’t walk, and working on recovery.”

Reed updated her followers on her health on February 15, 2022, telling them she was on dialysis after being put in a medically-induced coma.

She started explaining what the new normal looks like for her with a photo on Instagram of her going through dialysis.

"Not my best 6am photo but part of my daily ritual – dialysis," she said. Reed was in dialysis three times every week to rid her body of the excess fluids that caused her organ failure.

Each dialysis session lasts four hours, and Reed explained how the process works.

"They hook me up to a machine and remove waste + excess fluids as my kidneys aren't working."

She added, "I may not be focusing on weight loss as much on here right now (I'm eating healthy in bed and aiming for more protein) but I am working to heal and I wanted to share parts with you guys on this new journey."

What did Lexi Reed say after getting out of the hospital?

Reed announced she was home in an Instagram post on March 21, 2022, saying, "I'm officially off of dialysis & port free!"

She told her 1.2million Instagram followers that she is "grateful for all this body has done for me despite the good and bad times.

"I still have a long way to go in this new part of my journey with my health, struggles, and even some unanswered questions – but happy to still be going in the right direction after such a scare this year."

Reed set up a GoFundMe page to help with her medical bills and received $70k, but critics said she should have been able to afford health insurance.

People commented on her Instagram post asking for donations to her Support Lexi Reed in her Medical Expenses GoFundMe page claiming the influencer had a high net worth.

"People seem to think I'm some sort of millionaire just because the internet says so but we're far from that," Reed told Insider.

Although the website AllFamousBirthday claims Reed has a net worth of $1.5million, she said, "People on the internet are reading that I have all kinds of money, which is insane to me, because I clearly don't." 

She added, "Our house isn't even paid off and we only drive one vehicle so I'm not quite sure why people are so quick to believe anything these days."

Did Lexi Reed undergo surgery?

The weight loss influencer posted two Transformation Tuesday photos in 2019: one from before the skin removal surgery, when she was still working with pounds of extra skin, and one of herself two months after undergoing surgery.

She wrote on Instagram at the time: “Covered in scars in both photos, but both beautiful wounds from one hell of a fight.

“From losing 312 lbs. to having 7 lbs. of skin removed in a 9-hour surgery, every step has been worth the fight to give this body the care that it needs. 

“Both girls are strong and I’ve loved myself at every stage of my journey, especially the girl who was strong enough to start.”

She also sent a message of motivation to her followers in the post, writing: “We all have skin, wrinkles, stretch marks, and cellulite, but that can’t hold us back from living or define who we are.”

“Don’t let something so small be such a big excuse. 

“Love yourself every chapter of your journey, the skin you’re in and speak nicely to yourself because you’re always listening!”

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