By Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:01 BST, 25 June 2019 | Updated: 23:01 BST, 25 June 2019
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Patricia Krentcil has revealed that she was placed in a medically-induced coma earlier this month.
Krentcil - who became known as 'Tan Mom' after she took her five-year-old daughter to a tanning booth - collapsed on the street in Brandon, Florida, and was rushed to Brandon Regional Hospital.
Relatives say the mother-of five was diagnosed with pneumonia, pancreatitis and a lung infection and, as doctors tried to treat her, she went into cardiac arrest.
'My whole body died - I was proclaimed dead,' Krentcil, 51, told The New York Post. 'It was so sad.'
Patricia 'Tan Mom' Krentcil, 51 (left and right), collapsed on a street in Brandon, Florida, and was rushed to the hospital. She was diagnosed with pneumonia and doctors also found fluid in her lungs that needed to be drained
Krentcil's lungs were too weak because she is a life-long smoker and, because all the fluid could not be
