Back when the Sally Jessy Raphael show was a thing people watched on a daily basis, a screenwriter was watching one day when a woman named Darlene Cates was a guest. The subject? Too Heavy To Leave The House. A precursor to My 600 Pound Life. The writer, Peter Hedges thought Darlene would be great for the role of Mamma Grape, the mother of Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. This past weekend, Darlene died. She was 69.
Considering her weight (if she was still grossly obese) 69 years old is pretty old. I'd actually thought she had died years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I knew she was still alive is because I was reading the IMDB on the movie last week and they didn't have an end date on her page.
ReplyDeletePretty impressive for a morbidly obese woman to live to the age of 69 years old. Rare I'd guess
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