On April 12th, 2024 , ChubbyChiquita made a post to address her recent inactivityabsence, explaining how she's been taking a mental health break d taken time away due to the strain of grief associated with her work volunteering with a cat rescue organization (where she implies many of the cats are not surviving), as well as suggestions from her mental health providers needing to "take a break from anonymous internet threats and insults [and take] some time to compose [her]self and grieve."^[2] In the same post , she mentions how she has not lost weight, and among other things noted how she has trouble buckling car seatbelts over her belly, as well as . She also recounts how she recently managed to crack her bathtub with her weightatop a shower chair.