My 600-lb Life: Where Is Ryan Barkdoll, The Star Of ‘My 600-lb Life,’ Now?

When Ryan Barkdoll first came on our screens, the 31-year-old man weighed around 740 pounds and had reached a stage where he had realised that his life was not really a life because of limited mobility and health problems.

Ryan Barkdoll’s large frame prevented him from even going to a real bed, meaning he spent all his time in a recliner, living on disability benefits with his mother and her boyfriend in Montana. He’d always been great, but he’d finally realized that it might soon be his life and his dreams to one day become an independent man with a family of his own.

Like many people facing such addiction, Ryan’s childhood was not very stable. His birth father, a drug addict, had abandoned ship shortly after he was born, so he grew up believing his apathetic stepfather was his father.

As a result, Ryan spent years competing for her love and attention, which was only returned by his younger half-sister, who drove him to food as a consolation prize. He exceeded the 100-pound limit at the age of 10 and was therefore sent to live with his caring grandparents, where his weight remained stable until he learned the truth about his father and then lost his grandfather.

During high school, Ryan Barkdoll not only discovered that his biological father (weighing roughly 800 lbs) had died in his early 40s, but he also received the tragic news of his grandfather’s cancer on his 13th birthday. The latter lost his life just six days later, and it was then that Ryan fell into a spiral that led to him being over 300 pounds by the age of 17 and starting to use marijuana, cocaine, opioids and more. Eventually, when he was used to drinking or partying almost every day, he was caught with marijuana at school and kicked off the football team as a linebacker.

Ryan Barkdoll joined Job Corps to better himself at the age of 18 and got clean. But when he couldn’t find a job as a welder after finishing school, he moved back home and fell into old habits. It was only a few years later that a friend noticed what was happening and kindly contacted Ryan to find him a stable job in Montana.

But when the Oregon man was fired because of his size, he came to a standstill. Ryan’s mother and her boyfriend moved to the state to help him, but the cycle of using food to escape his thoughts continued. Unfortunately, that was also the case when he joined Dr. Now’s weight loss program.

My 600-lb Life: Where Is Ryan Barkdoll, The Star Of ‘My 600-lb Life,’ Now?

Ryan Barkdoll was unable to follow the 1,200-calorie no-carb diet that Dr. Now had prescribed for him, even though his mother did her best to prepare delicious snacks for him. She also removed all the things from their home that weren’t on the doctor’s eating list to help, only to have Ryan order junk food behind her back.

Then, when the time came for him to move to Houston, Texas to oversee the program, Ryan stepped aside and made numerous excuses.

Yes, Ryan’s mother and her boyfriend probably couldn’t move with him anymore and, as he said, one of his Oregon friends probably wasn’t well either. Nonetheless, it was Ryan’s own choice not to communicate properly with Dr. Now that led to his expulsion from the program. So as of today, it appears that Ryan Barkdoll is still in Columbia Falls, Montana, keeping out of the limelight.