Barbara Thore, My Big Fat Fabulous Life Star Dies at 76

Barbara Thore, may her soul rest in peace.

My Big Fat Fabulous Life star Barbara "Babs" Thore died at 76.

Barbara, mostly known among fans as Whitney Thore’s mom on the TLC show, died because of died of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, as per an Instagram post shared by

Whitney.

"My mother died last night just as the credits rolled on her favorite movie," Whitney wrote alongside a video montage of photographs of her mom and family over the years.

"Dad, Hunter, and I held her as she took her last breaths. It was 10:32pm, the same exact time she brought me into this world almost forty years ago," she said.

Whitney posted her mom had cerebral amyloid angiopathy, "an untreatable progressive condition caused by proteins in the blood vessels of the brain that can cause dementia, seizures, or like in my mom's case, brain bleeding (hemorrhagic strokes)."

Whitney's posted an emotional tribute to her mom, captioning: "My mother is our family's greatest gift. We could never love, revere, or value another person more."