What happened to influencer Lexi Reed?

LEXI Reed is an Instagram phenomenon who has shed over 300 pounds in less than a year and a half and has documented her remarkable weight loss journey. 

Her Instagram account, fatgirlfedup, is followed by around 750k people.

What happened to influencer Lexi Reed?

Reed has been in the hospital for about a month.

According to her husband Danny, Reed is recuperating in the hospital and focusing on getting “back to health” after being placed on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.

Reed, 31, became very ill a few weeks ago, according to an Instagram post.

The post, a photo posted to her account by Danny showed Reed hooked up to a ventilator in a hospital bed, was captioned: “Sorry for the late update but I (@discoveringdanny and family) have been focusing on getting Lexi back to health.

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

“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 its possible she could have died. 

“She is currently in dialysis, can’t walk, and working on recovery.”

Danny said that she’s awake but still sick.

Who is influencer Lexi Reed?

Reed rose to fame in 2016 after documenting her effort to lose 312 pounds with 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.”

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!”