Auntie Fee, a South L.A. homemaker who became an Internet sensation thanks to her saucy language and fried food recipes, has suffered a heart attack, leaving her in critical condition, according to her family.
Felicia O’Dell, 59, won fame in 2014 after her son posted a four-minute clip of her cooking some dough-covered “sweet treats for the kids,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Ever since then, her kitchen antics have landed her in magazines, newspapers and on television shows, including “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
On Wednesday, Fee remained unresponsive at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, The Times reported.
“She’s in pretty bad shape,” brother June O’Dell told the Los Angeles Times. “But we’re praying she pulls out of this.”
Fee’s fame has come with no small amount of criticism. Some people say her dishes — loaded with butter, sugar and grease — will send you to an early grave. But she’s held firm.
“I’m gonna keep it 100 and be me,” she said in a Times profile in 2015. “Ain’t nobody gonna tell me I gotta do this, I gotta do that.”
Her love for one ingredient in particular was always apparent.
“I’ll marry lard,” she told The Times. “Lard is the Lord.”
—City News Service