Keya Wingfield comfort-ate to morbid obesity after her baby son died. An epiphany led to her losing 40kg and reversing type 2 diabetes
To lose a baby is unthinkable. To do so during the Covid-19 pandemic, in isolation from your husband, family and friends, is the twist of the knife. But this was the fate of Keya Wingfield, a Mumbai-born, US-based Food Network champion chef.
She gave birth to her second child, son Daksh, in February 2021. “He was sick from the get-go,” she remembers. “They just couldn’t figure it out.”
Daksh’s lungs were failing him, and he spent his short life – 55 days – in a neonatal intensive care unit. He had a rare genetic mutation that affected his breathing, keeping his lungs from fully expanding.
For two months, they were like ships in the night. Then their vigil ended.
