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Rich Piana Passed Away A Month Before His Birthday

Rich Piana won the Mr. California title in 1998 and became famous on Instagram and YouTube for his massive frame. Sadly, he passed away in August 2017 after spending two weeks in an induced coma following a cardiac arrest, during which time doctors found that his heart and liver weighed over twice the average amount for an adult male. Piana previously admitted to his use of steroids and said that he became addicted to them, but told his followers that that was not the way to go. “If you have the choice to stay natural or do steroids, stay natural. There’s no reason to do steroids, you’re only hurting your body, you’re hurting yourself,” he said in 2016.