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Lexi Reed (born November 13, 1990) is an Instagram star who uses the platform to showcase her weight loss journey. She advertises weight loss as a Dietbet coach, having helped over one hundred thousand people lose weight.

Biography
Lexi was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. On October 3, 2015, she married Danny Reed, her high school sweetheart whom she had been dating since age 16. In December 2015 at the age of 25, she weighed 485 lbs and her husband weighed 280 lbs. This fact, and a challenge by one of her close friends, jump started her to join her first DietBet in January 2016. She created her now certified Instagram account, @fatgirlfedup, to document her weight loss journey, which she states is through exercise and diet solely.

Occupationally, she worked as the Intake Department Assistant Manager at Fleschner, Stark, Tanoos & Newlin Law Firm. In September 2016, the law firm congratulated her on her 164 pound weight loss. She was also given a spotlight in their newsletter for being Employee of the Month. She eventually quit FSTN to make her FatGirlFedUp business full-time, creating clothing and other merchandise and organizing her Dietbets. She is able to make this her full time job because Dietbet pays its hosts approximately 10% of their pool of money.

In January she was featured in People's 2018 Half Their Size issue, where she discussed the lifestyle changes she successfully utilized to lose weight. At the time of the interview, she weighed 180 lbs.

After losing over 300 lbs, on October 31, 2018 she underwent her first surgery: a nine-hour "360 bottom lift" skin removal surgery performed by plastic surgeon Dr. Joseph Michaels. He removed 7 lbs of excess adipose tissue from her abdomen and outer thighs.

Her weight has fluctuated due to water gain and dietary choices. Per her Instagram account, she weighed 198.2 lbs as of 1/5/2020.