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  2. Aug 9, 2012 · Cates is down from 575 to 331 lbs., and hopes to lose 100 more. With luck, she’ll be back outside before long, and will hopefully act again – following her acclaimed work two decades ago.

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  3. Updated March 28, 2017. Darlene Cates, best remembered as the actress who played Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio s obese, housebound mother in the 1993 film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,...

  4. Aug 9, 2012 · Dieting never seemed to work for long for Cates, the Dallas Morning News reported, as she turned to food for comfort when her husband, a Marine, was overseas. She even tried an early version of gastric bypass in 1981, People reported, which helped her lose 100 pounds at the time, until the weight slowly crept back on.

  5. Aug 10, 2012 · More than 20 years since she played the depressed, morbidly overweight mother of Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," Darlene Cates is about half the woman she...

  6. In an interview with the Dallas Morning News, Cates says that a series of health issues caused her to drop the weight — from 575 pounds to 331. Her goal is to lose 100 more. After a year-long...

  7. Sep 6, 2022 · By: superliving. Date: September 6, 2022. Time to read: 3 min. Darlene Cates is an amazing woman who has an inspiring story of weight loss success. She was once obese, but through hard work and determination, she was able to lose an incredible amount of weight.

  8. Had her stomach stapled (gastroplasty) in 1981 when she weighed 410 pounds and lost 100 pounds, but eventually gained all that weight back and more, going up to 550 pounds. She has had two very close friends die of complications from weight-loss surgery.

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