Relatives of Victoria Lacatus said she died of a heart attack Sunday after developing a high fever and breathing problems. Doctors from Craiova hospital in southern Romania said Lacatus' heart stopped. Hospital manager Florin Petrescu said doctors tried to resuscitate Lacatus for 30 minutes, a task made difficult because of her extreme obesity. After she gave birth by cesarean section to a 6.4 pounds baby girl on Feb. 18, Lacatus gained another 44 pounds, her sister Cristina Sosoiu told the daily Libertatea.

Doctors had told Lacatus to go on a diet but she apparently kept eating, the paper reported. Her daughter, Anisoara, currently weighs just a little over 9 pounds, the paper said. She lives with her maternal grandmother. It is not clear why the baby does not live with her father, Costica Lacatus. Lacatus fell ill with a fever last week and was hospitalized in her hometown of Caracal in southern Romania before she was moved to the main regional hospital where she died.