Some time later she broke with his husband and moved in Reno, Nevada. The break-up didn't seem to have stopped her desire for continued weight-gain,as she was said to have enlisted a group of devoted fans(dubbed her "harem"), to help her gain weight and feed her, according to an article in the british "Closer", published in October 2012.[https://closeronline.co.uk/real-life/news/ll-eat-60st-even-kills/]. The article further stated, that in order to track Patty's monthly weight-gain, her feeders took her to a nearby truck weighting station, to be able to measure her enourmous body. In 2013 Patty appeared in the TLC documentary ''"Fat for Cash"'', in which she regretted becoming immobile. Patty then started losing weight, and in 2015 she was down to 476lbs [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3333491/Morbidly-obese-woman-wanted-heaviest-female-world-loses-238lbs-721lb-frame-severing-ties-feeder-boyfriend.html].