600 lb (273 kg) Lady Is Determined to Become the World's Fattest Woman

[Agent M]

The super-sized 43st mother who is determined to become the world's fattest woman

Donna Simpson already weighs 43st, but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world's fattest woman.

The 42-year-old from New Jersey, U.S, is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark (71st) in just two years. Remarkably she insists she is healthy, despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.

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Donna Simpson already weighs 43 stone but is consuming an astonishing 12,000 calories a day in a quest to become the world's fattest woman

'My favourite food is sushi, but unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go,' she said.

'I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favourite.'

Donna, who wears XXXXXXXL dresses, eats mounds of junk food and tries to move as little as possible.

Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world's fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone.

She needed a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter Jacqueline during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

Yet although she can only move 20ft before needing to sit down, she wants to be even bigger.

'I'd love to be 1,000lb,' she said.

'It might be hard though. Running after my daughter keeps my weight down.'

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Ms Simpson can no longer walk more than 20ft before needing to sit down. She goes to the shops in a mobility scooter

You might expect her long-term partner Philippe, 49, to advise her to slim down, but instead he encourages her to eat more.

He met Donna on a dating site for plus-size people and is a self-confessed fat admirer, although he himself only weighs 150lbs.

'I think he'd like it if I was bigger,' said Donna.

'He's a real belly man, and completely supports me.'

To achieve her goal, Donna says she will need to eat up to 12,000 calories a day (the average woman should consume only 2,000.)

To fund the massive $750 weekly food shop, she runs a website where men pay her to watch her eat fast food.

Donna's weight problem began early. Her mother made big meals for Donna and her brothers and gave them lots of treats and fattening food.

By the time Donna was nine, she weighed 13 stone.

'Food was her way of showing she loved us, she wanted us to eat, and she was very protective of us,' Ms Simpson said.

'She wouldn't let anyone say anything bad to us about our weight. She would argue with doctors who said it was dangerous.'

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Donna Simpson poses for a photograph with her daughter, Jacqueline. It took 30 medics to deliver her.

Donna's mother died soon after, and her dad married a woman who put the children on a strict diet.

'I used to steal food from the cupboards, which were still full because my mum used to store food,' she said.

But as she got older, Donna began to worry about her weight and started taking diet pills.

Between the ages 14 and 18 she slimmed down to 11 stone, but was still unhappy.

'Dieting just made me miserable because I was thinking about food all the time.,' she said.

After she left school, Donna got a desk job and no longer felt the need to fit in with other girls.

'I felt so much better when the weight came back,' she said.

'It felt like who I was meant to be.'

When Donna was 19 she met her first husband, who worked as a chef at a steak restaurant.

'He worked night shifts and would come home at 2 or 3am and bring the leftovers with him,' she said.

'We'd stay up and eat huge piles of steak, mashed potatoes, and gravy with butter.

'I started gaining weight quickly and my husband liked it.

'He said I was sexier when I was bigger, and I felt happier too.'

When she was 27, Donna weighed 25 stone, and fell pregnant with her eldest son, Devin. Her marriage ended soon after and she turned to food for comfort.

By the age of 31, she weighed 43 stone and decided to try and lose weight. She lost five stones in six months and was due to have a gastric band operation.

But just before she was due to go under the knife, her friend died during a similar operation.

'That was a sign for me,' Ms Simpson said.

'I decided it just wasn't worth it. I like being the way I am.'

Donna, then 37 stone, came across a website which celebrated obese women.

When she admitted her real size, Donna was flooded with emails from men.

'They sent me gifts through the post, like protein shakes to help me put on weight faster,' she said.

And she unrepentant of her weight-gain goal, despite risking her own life in the process.

'I love eating and people love watching me eat,' she said.

'It makes people happy, and I'm not harming anyone.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1257850/Super-sized-mother-determined-worlds-fattest-woman-years.html#ixzz0iETKpz9o

[edge003]

:lmao: they were talking on the radio about her this afternoon.

Can't say i'd pay to see her stuff her face :P Oh and i hope no1 who pays to watch that thinks it's sexy lol

[Reghead121]

I heard about this as well.... Not only is that SO unhealthy but it's setting a terrible example for her daughter.... :(

1000 pounds.... why on earth would anyone want to do that to themselves? She keeps eating that stuff in those quantities I can only imagine the health problems she end up with. By the time she starts to regret it, the health effects might be permanent.

[Dutchie]

This is sick......she can die from obesity and the bigger she becomes the harder it will be to take care of her child. What if she dies? Her child will stay behind at a young age. What a selfish woman, seriously. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

[Nirvana]

Hope her daughter copes alright when she's dead in a few years

[bubbyduck4MJ]

The poor child. She is going to lose her mother. How can she believe that she IS and WILL BE healthy!! WTF!! You're not healthy at that kind of weight! She's going to die and is most likely ****ing up her daughters mind when it comes to food and weight! She could grow up and do the same thing.

She is in major denial if she doesn't think she's at a HUGE health risk by doubling her already huge weight. You can clearly read the triggers and why she is doing this........ she needs THERAPY!

end rant/

[Laura.L.]

That's disgusting. And I'm not referring to the way she looks, but to the way she acts. She's slowly killing herself infront of her own daughter's eyes, and acting like it's ok. That's a horrible example she's setting to her little kid. And her husband encouraging this behaviour is just as digusting.

Mad world.

[The One.]

Ugh for me it's disturbing to watch her pictures, that's just not normal.. and she actually wants to get even bigger?! :no:
She would be perfectly beautiful if she wasn't fatting herself and like you guys said she's obviously not thinking clearly the example she's giving to her daughter..

[Lilly86]

oh god..many sick people in the world apparantly! ..well, she´ll die proud then I guess, in a couple of years!

[L&L=L.O.V.E.]

I wouldn't be proud of the title :lol:

[Louise.]

I feel so bad for her daughter. :sigh:

[oceanborn]

She's committing a slow suicide :no:

[DanceofLorelei1994]

WOW.

She must have the lowest self esteem that's hit the planet. You must be one heck of a insecure person to want to make yourself even fatter to achieve a "goal" or a "legacy". She's killing herself. Sick. Sick.

Stories like this make me wanna just STOP eating and it also makes me MAD. It makes me VERY VERY VERY ANGRY.

Somebody should tell that woman - "DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN WE CAN FEED WITH WHAT YOU EAT PER DAY?!?!?!?" Selfish, Selfish woman.

[raingirl]

Good luck to her. (sarcasm) She might reach her goal and then drop dead. I only feel sorry for the little girl. I think the girl should be taken away from this unfit mother. If she was abusing drugs they would have already taken the kid away. She's only gonna make the girl fat too.

[Rockin.]

What is she thinking?!!!!!

[MarielovesMJ]

I think that this is a stupid and selfish act if she is intentaly doing it. (people who do it by emotiontion don't count because I usally eat for emotional reasons sometimes.)

And here's the list of worlds heavist people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_heaviest_people

She's got a way to go considering that the heavist person EVER was 1,400 pounds.

If she was single and did'nt have kids, I would go a lot easier on her.

[elusive moonwalker]

what a dumb ass

[Ashtanga]

:doh:

:bugeyed

Well, now it says healthy, but at some point the effects of obesity and diseases began to appear. This woman will not live long. It is destroying their health and giving a bad example for her daughter. It seems that she has low self-esteem and find comfort eating. :mello:

[Upside]

Ew.

What a big, fat waste of space!

[LoveMJackson]

Yuck! She makes me a nausea.
I feel sorry for a daughter.

[Anna]

Ugh. That's disgusting.

[Rockin.]

Donna, then 37 stone, came across a website which celebrated obese women.

When she admitted her real size, Donna was flooded with emails from men.

'They sent me gifts through the post, like protein shakes to help me put on weight faster,' she said
'I love eating and people love watching me eat,' she said.

'It makes people happy, and I'm not harming anyone.'


You are harming yourself hun.. and your daughter and family if anything were to happen to you because of your eating.

It sounds like this woman had low self esteem and then found a 'niche' where she felt she fit in, not only did she fit in, she was one of the biggest, the best. She got lots of positive attention and of course she enjoyed it because it made her feel better about herself. To keep this attention she needs to keep eating.. to be the best of her 'niche' she wants to be the biggest, to have the most admiration from these people. Its sad she has that need and she should have help.


You might expect her long-term partner Philippe, 49, to advise her to slim down, but instead he encourages her to eat more.

He met Donna on a dating site for plus-size people and is a self-confessed fat admirer, although he himself only weighs 150lbs.

'I think he'd like it if I was bigger,' said Donna.
Her long-term partner who was one of the men on the plus-size dating websites should not be encouraging this. I've watched a documentry where men make their wives eat to make them get massively and dangerously overweight because they like big women. I see that as abuse. I don't mean big on the normal scale, I mean supersize.. one woman couldn't even leave her home because she was too big.

[Courtney]

Oh what a large woman she is...how in the world could anybody be proud of that? She's slowly putting herself in an early grave. And her daugther's so young.

How selfish. That woman needs to get some medical help before it's too late.

[Ashtanga]

I've watched a documentry where men make their wives eat to make them get massively and dangerously overweight because they like big women.
:o

Wow, it's unbelievable. What is the name of this documentary?


This thread reminded me of this documentary:

http://moviebanter.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/924236super-size-me-posters.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me


Not having a healthy diet, creates big risks to health. Maybe if she attend this documentary, she start to change and think on her health.

[TarinJade]

'It makes people happy, and I'm not harming anyone.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1257850/Super-sized-mother-determined-worlds-fattest-woman-years.html#ixzz0iETKpz9o

If you don't count the loved ones who will be affected by your slow and untimely death, then no, you're not harming anyone.

[RainbowAngel]

I don't blame her for not being smart and strong, she got serious problems! The one who is to blame is the men who support her getting fat and send her amiration letters and pay to see her get fat.

[bubbyduck4MJ]

It sounds like this woman had low self esteem and then found a 'niche' where she felt she fit in, not only did she fit in, she was one of the biggest, the best. She got lots of positive attention and of course she enjoyed it because it made her feel better about herself. To keep this attention she needs to keep eating.. to be the best of her 'niche' she wants to be the biggest, to have the most admiration from these people. Its sad she has that need and she should have help.

Her long-term partner who was one of the men on the plus-size dating websites should not be encouraging this. I've watched a documentry where men make their wives eat to make them get massively and dangerously overweight because they like big women. I see that as abuse. I don't mean big on the normal scale, I mean supersize.. one woman couldn't even leave her home because she was too big.

Totally agree with you.


:o

Wow, it's unbelievable. What is the name of this documentary?


It's a huge thing actually.. scary. There's whole forums online were they encourage each other to gain a lot of weight. There's even a movie about it!

[MissyJackson]

i actually threw up when i saw this thread dont ask me why
but i do have an eating disorder where i cant eat because
getting that size terrifys me

[babyface34]

This will not end well.

[xthunderx2]

I think that they should take her medical coverage away from her I bet that would change her mind. The article says she has a mobility chair ...those things are very expensive and I am sure she didn't pay for it. Obviously she doenst care about her child being motherless..if she did she woudn't do what it is she is trying to do to herself. Unless she has mental problem to...then she should be under the care of a physician and not getting famous for a stupid stunt like this.

[Rockin.]

:o

Wow, it's unbelievable. What is the name of this documentary?



I can't remember the name, but I've been searching and found one called 'Fat Girls and Feeders'. I don't know if it is the same one, but like bubbyduck4mj said, there are forums out there for 'feeders' and 'feedees'. You can propably search 'feeders and feedees' in google and you'll see. I came across a forum whilst searching for the documentary title. I had a look at one it was actually kind of disturbing. There were 'support' threads for 'feeders' who were devastated that their parters wanted to lose weight, they were giving tips on how to manipulate them so that they wouldn't.

Two reviews of the documentary. about the Fat Girls and Feeders documentary. I don't know if it is the same one I saw, but it sounds the same, it is about the same subject anyway.



I watched a program last night on the Discovery Health channel called "Fat Girls and Feeders".

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/food/ove_feeders.html

The above article describes the show. Basically, it looked at the phenomenon of "feeders and feedies". This isn't about men who are attracted to big women, rather it's about men who try to 'fatten up' their female partners.

The article gives the basics (and the rest of my post may not make sense if you haven't read it), but what struck me the most on this program was the language used by the 'feeders', the men married to the bedridden women. One man (the one in the photo), said that a fat woman was not an "easy thing to have" (referring to the about of care he provided for his bedridden wife, Gina). He spoke of "growing" his wife. He wanted her to be unable to do anything for herself, so that she depended on him utterly. His pleasure when his wife had to rest against him after shuffling to get out of bed was clear. When he spoke of taking care of the bedsores that had formed on her skin being as tough as elephant skin, he spoke of her as though she was a 'thing', the way many people speak of animals. She wasn't a person to him. He divorced his first wife for becoming too thin. To me, it appeared he wanted her to be so helpless that he had absolute power over her. Why else would he want his wife to be so huge she was unable to look after herself - unable to stand, unable to move, unable to wash?

Another woman, Debbie I think her name was, who had got out of one of these relationships (after a lot of planning with her mother, organising police, fire crews, etc), spoke of how she'd felt imprisoned within her own body. After an argument, her partner could get up and walk away and come back whenever he wanted - she was stuck there because she was too heavy --and weak-- to move. After she got out, medical professionals said if she had stayed, she would have had only 24 hours left to live.

The original man I spoke of, Gina's husband, labelled himself an "enabler", in that he didn't force-feed his wife, or feed her fat through tubes (the inference being that other men did this to their wives) - he claimed that the relationship was entirely consentual.

On the surface, it was. His wife, Gina, agreed to it all. She wanted to gain weight and hold the world record. She even did voice-overs for the videos he made of her to post on the internet ("Hopefully, this will be the last time I am able to stand on my own", etc). They made enough money from these videos for him to quit work to 'care' full-time for his wife.

Many people would view this as some sort of sexual fetish (and I think for most of them it starts out that way). But, to me, this is just another form of domestic abuse. No, there's no 'violence', however listening to these women speak was heartbreaking. Their self-esteem was so low that they seemed to believe that the fat was what defined them. If they spoke out against gaining further weight, their husbands and the FA (fat admirer) community accused them of falling prey to "diet culture".

People loved them because they were fat. It reminds me of what many people with EDs or depression say - if I take the illness away, what's left underneath? These women had so little self-esteem that they seemed to believe the same thing - the fat was the only thing of value. If they took it away, was there anything worthwhile underneath? Unfortunately, the relationships with their husbands only served to enforce this notion.

The saddest point for me was when Gina, who at the time of filming weighed around 420 pounds, watched a video of herself at over 800 pounds and said, 'it's hard to believe under all that there is a person.' She was still married to her 'feeder' husband (who made it very clear he was unhappy with her weight-loss), however I was heartened by the tone in her voice at the end of the program - she seemed to be beginning to understand what was going on. It was the only positive thing I could take from it.

What do you think? Is there any possibility that the program was unfairly biased in condemning this type of relationship? Can there be consent in such a relationship? Or is it a form of domestic abuse passed off as a fetish?

If the woman in this situation dies, is it murder?

Interested in any thoughts about this bizarre, but apparently sizeable, portion of our society.
Channel 4 in the UK last night showed a programme called "Fat Girls and Feeders". To begin with it followed men who had a penchant for what they described as "fat girls" the bigger the better. One guy from the UK had gone to the States to try to meet some women as he couldn't find any big enough at home. The women he met at a specialised nightclub all seemed to be happy with their size, and were happy that men found them attractive.

The programme then took a different shift. It concentrated on a couple who lived in Arizona. When they met, the woman was about 280 lbs (20 stones). Her boyfriend (who she later married) really liked fat women, and wanted her to be the biggest/fattest woman in the world. Together, they embarked on an "enlargement programme". Over the next 10 years of their marriage, her weight went up to over 826 lbs (59 stones). During this time, he took nude Polaroid photographs of her on which he clearly marked her weight and posteds them on the Internet for other "FA's (Fat Admirers) to look at. He then made some videos of her which he sold over the Internet and through specialist outlets. I have to say, that his wife was a willing party and even did the voice-overs on the videos. He kept telling her how beautiful she was and enjoyed the fact that she was now totally dependant on him. As she was so big, she couldn''t get out of bed or walk about. The last video he made of her was oefforts to try to get out of bed un-aided. She was swinging her bulk from side to side to give her momentum to get to the edge of the bed - it was quite sad to watch. Her husband though, admitted that he found it a real turn on.

After they had made this video, his wife decided that for the sake of her health she wanted to reduce her weight. After much discussion, she had a stomach stapling procedure and she succeeded in reducing her weight by half to about 500 lgs (29 stones). She was still big, but at least now she could walk small distances and was not totally reliant on her husband. She admitted that they had had to have marriage guidance councelling as her husband didn't find her attractive because she had lost weight and thought that she had "sold out". She was asked if she had her time over again, if she would allow herself to get so big just to pkease someone else. Her answer: probably not. Her husband though, has still not given up on the fact that she may wish to re-start gaining weight. He is building a house with wider doorways, so that she can easily fit through without turning sideways, and with everything on one level.

The other case that was focussed on was a girl who was once known as the world's fattest model. She met a man and moved into his apartment with him. It was a short time later that she realized that she was virtually a prisoner. She couldn't get down the stairs to get out. He would leave her alone all day with nothing else to do but eat junk food to fatten her up. Eventually her mother managed to persuade the emergency services that they had to get her out of the apartment and they forced entry. In the 2 years that she had been there, she had put on over 280 lbs (20 stones). They estimated that when they found her she had about 24 hours to live without medical attention. The guy she had taken up with was a "feeder". He used emotional blackmail to get her to eat more and at times even added bulking agents to her food and weight gain powders. There are sites on the Internet that show you how to force feed someone. This girl did acknowledge that if she hadn't got out when she did, he probably would have kept feeding her until she burst.

You have to wonder if some of the girls get sucked into this as they have low self-esteem about being overweight in the first place. Once someone starts telling them how amazing they look, but that they would look even better with 20 lbs more on .....

All in all it was a very sad programme. These 2 women had got through it, albeit with damage to their health, but you were left to wonder how many more had not.

The last video he made of her was efforts to try to get out of bed un-aided. She was swinging her bulk from side to side to give her momentum to get to the edge of the bed - it was quite sad to watch. Her husband though, admitted that he found it a real turn on.

Maybe this is just me, but I find this sort of behavior twisted, sadistic and yes...abusive. I understand that she was a willing participant in all this, but it's still very, very sad.

This is an article I found on a health site about it.


'Fat Girls & Feeders' shock

Last updated: Monday, March 12, 2007 Print (http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/DietDocs_articles/15-1871,25955.asp#)
We know that in some cultures fat is revered because it is a symbol of affluence in starving populations. On the other hand, the mania to be super-thin is sick. In a recent TV programme, called 'Fat Girls & Feeders', the often-twisted psychological scenarios that play a role in obesity was illuminated.
For a feeder to set out to feed his companion to the point where that person is no longer capable of moving unaided should be punishable and far exceeds any personal rights to freedom.
Why would anyone want to be a feeder and why would anyone submit to this inhuman treatment?
Control and submission
The answer probably lies in control and submission. It's striking that all the subjects of forced feeding are women and all the feeders are men. Making the woman in your life eat until she is incapacitated and no longer able to care for herself, is probably an ultimate example of the control that humans exert over each other.
Feeders seem to enjoy the power they wield to make their companions submit to degradation - the excessive feeding, the helplessness of having to rely on the feeder for even the most basic human functions (washing, going to the toilet, or just moving), and the fact that the ‘fat girls’ are trapped in their mountains of fat as effectively as in a cage - all these inhuman and cruel actions enhance the power of the feeder.
On the other hand, the women who allow themselves to be trapped in this helpless situation represent the ultimate need to submit - they are so deprived of affection, so eager to please, so flattered by the attention they receive 24 hours a day, that they submit to having their lives totally perverted. It is understandable that a woman who has been plump or overweight or even obese all her life and has had to suffer the scorn and rejection of modern society, will initially regard a man who tells her he loves her fat and her curves and wants more and more of her, as a savior.
It was evident from this programme that most of the ‘fat girls’ who were trapped by feeders eventually came to realise that they were being exploited in a most dangerous and deviant way.
Then of course, there were the medical consequences of growing to such enormous proportions. The ‘fat girls’ came dangerously close to dying as their systems were overwhelmed by the avalanche of fat that was being deposited in their bodies. Luckily, some of the women came to their senses and managed to ‘escape’ from their feeders, lose some weight with the aid of medical procedures such as gastric bypass surgery and regain a modicum of health and mobility.
Feeders in everyday life
While the TV programme ‘Fat Girls and Feeders’ showed extreme cases, there are many situations in everyday life where a tendency to exert control through food or to submit by gaining weight can also occur.
a) Parents
Many parents either consciously or unconsciously equate supplying food and fat children with love. When the child or teenager refuses to “clean his/her plate” the adult perceives this as a rejection of his or her love. Young children are particularly vulnerable to this type of coercion and may eat to please their parents or caregivers. This can result in a vicious cycle, which usually results in the child gaining weight and becoming a fat child, and often a fat adult.
On the other hand, many mothers have no idea how much a baby or young child should eat. Never make the mistake to judge your child’s food intake in adult terms. Babies and young children have tiny stomachs and they cannot and should not have to cope with large amounts of food. Often anxiety that a child is underfed will drive a mother to overfeed her infant.
Go for help if you have no idea what your child should weigh and how much he should be eating at any period in his childhood. If you click on ‘Child’ at the top of the Health24 Website and then on ‘Nutrition’ you will find a series of articles on each stage of development which can be used as a guide for growth, quantities your child should be eating and menus to help to ensure that your child is adequately fed.
b) Partners
Health24 often receives questions from men and women who are trying to lose weight, while their partners are doing everything in their power to prevent them from succeeding. If you are trapped in a relationship where your partner sabotages your attempts to reduce weight or start exercising, then you may need outside help from a clinical psychologist to normalise this situation.
Loving partners should be supportive and helpful, and not feel threatened by the fact that you are trying to make a positive change to your appearance and life. Don’t let yourself be trapped in the submissive role prescribed by your partner. He or she is the one with the problem and may require counselling.
If your partner will not go for counselling, you need to take a firm stand and let him know that you are going to persevere with your weight loss or exercise programme, no matter what he says or does. Reassure him that you are not just going to drop him when you fit into a smaller size dress and that you are losing weight to improve your health. Talk about the reasons why he wants you to stay fat, what fears he has and how he can best overcome such fears.
If you feel that you are caught up in this type of destructive and manipulative relationship, it may be time to break out of the vicious cycle before it is too late. If you are a parent and are overfeeding your child, go to your GP, a dietician, or a clinical psychologist, before it is too late for your helpless child. – (Dr I.V. van Heerden, DietDoc)
Any questions? Ask DietDoc (http://www.health24.com/experts/DietDoc/979-1002.asp)

[Ashtanga]

It's a huge thing actually.. scary. There's whole forums online were they encourage each other to gain a lot of weight. There's even a movie about it!
An example very bad for people. :ph34r:

:(





I can't remember the name, but I've been searching and found one called 'Fat Girls and Feeders'. I don't know if it is the same one, but like bubbyduck4mj said, there are forums out there for 'feeders' and 'feedees'. You can propably search 'feeders and feedees' in google and you'll see. I came across a forum whilst searching for the documentary title. I had a look at one it was actually kind of disturbing. There were 'support' threads for 'feeders' who were devastated that their parters wanted to lose weight, they were giving tips on how to manipulate them so that they wouldn't.

Two reviews of the documentary. about the Fat Girls and Feeders documentary. I don't know if it is the same one I saw, but it sounds the same, it is about the same subject anyway.



This is an article I found on a health site about it.
:o

Thanks for the articles. This is surprisingly bad. It is a serious problem. I think these people have a big psychological problem and try to feel better eating and that is not good. :no:

This is not a question of beauty, is a question of health. Eating excessively (fats) is a terrible evil to the body. You fattening, is heavy, you feel bad and can not do things right, such as floor and still have other health problems. :mello:

These people need psychological treatment. First the head, if not change the thoughts there is no diet that will solve. :no:

I'm shocked. I could never think that they happened. :bugeyed

[adrianmonk]

:shock: i had never heard of this... :no: :no: :no: this is just sad, yet another way for people to abuse others and themselves :( :( :(

[Agent M]

This is the woman she is chasing:

'Diet Or Die,' World’s Fattest Woman is Warned After Hitting FIFTY STONE

- Mother of one, 49, urgently needs brain scan but is too big for an MRI machine
- Bedbound for last three years after doctor changed medication

A woman believed to be the world's fattest at 50 stone (700lbs) is facing a battle to shed weight after being told by doctors she could die.

Terri Smith is confined to her bedroom in her Ohio home unable to move, stand or roll over by herself.

Suffering from severe headaches which doctors fear could stem from a brain problem, Terri urgently needs a brain scan - but is too big to fit inside an MRI machine.

http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac143/MichaelJennings/523f0a5e.jpg
Huge problem: Terri Smith, pictured in her bed with medication, is facing a battle to lose weight so she can fit in an MRI machine

To undergo the scan and receive the life-saving treatment she may require, Terri is now embarking on a weight loss regime of exercise and healthy eating.

She relies on her husband Myron, 44, and oldest daughter Najah, 30, to do everything for her.

The 49-year-old must be washed, fed and dressed on the bed and wears nappies which her daughter and husband change.

'My husband is my guardian angel,' said Terri.

'He's stuck by me through everything. Most men would have left a long time ago and who could blame them but Myron is a living saint.'

Terri was always large - at age seven she weighed almost eight stone (112lbs).

'My nickname at school was fatso,' she said. 'No one wanted me on their sports team and that didn't help the fat.

'We grew up on soul food and no one thought anything about it.

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Devoted: Terri with loving husband Myron who changes her nappies

That's just what people did where I'm from. We never watched what we ate at all and we didn't know what was healthy and what wasn't.'

By the age of 20 Terri weighed 18 stone (252lbs) but she remained active and held a job as a mental health care worker for 20 years.

'I used to help people wash, feed and dress themselves,' she said.

'Back then I never thought that the tables would turn and someone would be doing all that stuff for me.'

After marrying her husband in 1986 Terri was big but happy.

'I prayed for a man like Myron and he came to me,' she said 'He's kind, gentle and he loves me for who

'I am. Even now he tells me I'm pretty, that man is amazing.'

But she continued to eat the same diet and kept on growing, while her husband and daughter stayed slim.

Terri, who suffers severe headaches, needs an MRI scan to check for a potential brain tumour but is too big to fit in any scanners or into the doors of a hospital clinic.

She faces a race against time to lose weight in a bid to qualify for gastric surgery to save her life.

When Terri was 32 she developed severe arthritis in her knees and couldn't walk for more than a few steps.

She was given an electric wheelchair and the lack of exercise made the weight pile on.

'I used to walk everywhere and be on my feet at work but suddenly I was trapped,' she said.

As the years passed her weight ballooned until she could hardly stand.

Then, after her doctor changed her diuretic medication, she gained a staggering 6.5 stone (91lb) in 30 days. She suddenly found herself bedbound and has been trapped for almost three years.

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Dr. Dariush Saghafi said: "I have been seeing Terri for six months.

'Caring for someone of Terri's size is very difficult. It is very hard to move and transport her. Hospitals do not have equipment to hold someone of her girth.

Terri needs an MRI but there are no machines in the region big enough to take her weight.

'We thought that it might be possible for Terri to have an MRI at the Cleveland Zoo in the machine used for the elephants and rhinos but the zoo does not have a licence for humans.

'We're hoping the Cleveland clinic can find an MRI for Terri.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337077/World-s-fattest-woman-Terri-Smith-told-Diet-die-hitting-50-STONE.html

[Nirvana]

Imagine giving her oral

[Agent M]

Imagine giving her oral
You mean "oral" medication, right?!:D

Stuffed! The 30,000-Calorie Christmas Feast Eaten by the World's Fattest Mum in ONE Two-Hour Sitting

A New Jersey woman who hopes to become the fattest woman in the world got 30,000 calories closer to her 1,000lb goal with a festive feast that could have fed dozens of revellers.

46-stone Donna Simpson, sitting in a reinforced metal chair, chowed down on the world's biggest Christmas dinner as she ate for two straight hours on Saturday.

The single mother-of-two tucked into two 25lb turkeys, two maple-glazed hams, 15lbs of potatoes (10lbs roast, 5lbs mashed), five loaves of bread, five pounds of herb stuffing, four pints of gravy, four pints of cranberry dressing and an astonishing 20lbs of vegetables.

After polishing off her enormous main course, she still had room for dessert and ate a 'salad' made of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies.

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Donna's at 30,000 calories in her two-hour Christmas feast -- as much as many people eat over the course of two WEEKS.


WHAT SHE ATE:
2 portions of 25lb oven roasted turkeys
2 portions of 15lb maple glazed hams
10lbs of roast potatoes
5lbs of mashed potatoes
5lbs of chopped carrots
5lbs of sweetcorn
5lbs of roasted butternut squash
5 parcels of house-baked bread
4 pints of cranberry relish
4 pints of home-made gravy
5lbs of herbed stuffing
1 tray of mixed green salad including salad dressing.
CALORIE TOTAL: 30,000

Donna's two children, Devin, 14, and Jacqueline, three, enjoyed a more modest feast.

The 5'2 Donna defended her £150 meal, saying: 'I eat as much as I want, whenever I want but at this time of year I really go all out.

'Christmas should give you carte blanche to do whatever you want.'

Donna, who insists she is healthy, told the Sunday Mirror: 'People who feel guilty about eating are hilarious.'

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Donna hopes to one day be the Guinness World Record holder for fattest woman. She is already on the books as the world's fattest mum

She makes a living from being fat, getting paid to make public appearances and keeping a website where people can pay to watch her eat.

Already a Guinness world record holder for being the largest woman to ever give birth, Donna hopes to gain 25 stone more and officially become the fattest woman in the world.

She got the Guinness World Record as the world's fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone.

She needed a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter Jacqueline during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

Donna met Jacqueline's father Philippe on a dating site for plus-size people, even though he weighed only 10 stone.

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He supported her 12,000-calorie a day diet and was a 'belly man' who loved her enormous shape.

Donna has always been plus sized.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341683/Donna-Simpsons-feast-The-30-000-calorie-Christmas-feast-eaten-worlds-fattest-mum-ONE-hour-sitting.html

[xthunderx2]

If these woman only knew what it would do to their children if they died from a heart-attack or a stoke ..just trying to achieve to me..what is a stupid goal. I think they are selfish. :(

[JohnC]

People should stop being critical of her. Im sure she has enough on her plate...

[xthunderx2]

People should stop being critical of her. Im sure she has enough on her plate...
haha I get ya....:cheeky:....I bet they do...:ninja:

[TSCM]

Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world's fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone.

I'm disturbed that Guinness World Records still allows such 'records'. They previously had to outlaw their "Fattest Animal" records because people were competitively forcing their pets to eat unheard of amounts just to beat a record.

[Severus Snape]

...and yet, all over the world, millions of children are starving to death.


We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, ist wunderbar...

I hope she enjoys her heart attack.

[kopwatcher]

People should stop being critical of her. Im sure she has enough on her plate...

Genius.

[DanceofLorelei1994]

:O

I'M DISGUSTED!

That much food for one meal for one person when MILLIONS are starving?

LORD HELP US!

[Darth Sidious]

http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac143/MichaelJennings/53bde2b0.jpg


http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac143/MichaelJennings/a5b8de43.jpgHe supported her 12,000-calorie a day diet and was a 'belly man' who loved her enormous shape.

Looks like the same dude is dating both chicks.

[MJstarlight]

:bugeyed

[Jacob"TheBoss"Angle]

Imagine giving her oral

Haha! I just did. :lmao:

[Roosje]

^ewww!

[TheDangerousFan]

Some of the comments in this thread are so cruel.You enjoy having fun of the people's misery?

[Jacob"TheBoss"Angle]

Some of the comments in this thread are so cruel.You enjoy having fun of the people's misery?

Sorry, I just couldn't help it. :lol:

[Darth Sidious]

Some of the comments in this thread are so cruel.You enjoy having fun of the people's misery?
Donna isn't miserable, she says she's fine and dandy and shoves it in our faces so fair game.

[Agent M]

The world's fattest man blames others for his plight . . . .

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By EMMA MORTON Health and Science Editor Published: 07 Jan 2011

MAN mountain Paul Mason plans to SUE the NHS - claiming they ignored his plight as he rocketed towards 70 stone.

Paul - once the world's fattest man - vowed to use any compo to help other patients who need weight-loss ops.

The 50-year-old, of Ipswich, said he begged his local NHS trust for help at 30st.

But the medic he consulted in 1996 told him: "Ride your bike more."

When the former postman hit 64st he asked to see an eating disorders specialist, but was sent to a dietician.

He had life-saving gastric surgery last year and is now a relatively slim 37st.

Paul said: "I want to set a precedent so no one else has to get to the same size - and to put something back into society."

We revealed this month how his weight had made him feel so guilty he tried to kill himself THREE times.

He took an overdose of powerful pain killers because of his huge body mass they failed to do any harm. He later slashed his wrists after having an earlier gastric band op cancelled.

Five more years passed before he was given the chance to have the operation.

But in that time he was housebound and could not even go to the funeral of his mum Janet last year.

At his heaviest Paul was eating 20,000 calories a day - ten times what a normal, healthy man should consume - and the cost of caring for him is thought to have hit £1million in 15 years.

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Giant ... at his heaviest Paul was 70 stone

He finally had the £30,000 operation last spring but before it could take place floors at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, had to be reinforced at a cost of £5,000 to take his weight.

An NHS Suffolk spokesman said: "As we have not heard from Mr Mason it would be inappropriate to speculate."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3334976/Fattest-man-Paul-Mason-sues-the-NHS-for-allegedly-letting-him-grow.html

Donna Simpson should take note of the tragic case of Sharon Mevsimler:

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Ballooned ... husband Bulent Mevsimler at hospital bed of his 45st wife Sharon in Essex

By EMMA MORTON, Health and Science Editor Published: 26 Jul 2010

A MUM revealed in The Sun to be Britain's fattest woman at 45st has died after secretly GORGING in hospital.

Sharon Mevsimler, 40, was on a strict diet in Chelmsford, Essex, but had family buckets of chicken and fish and chips smuggled in.

She died of a heart attack nine days after we told of the five-footer's grub addiction.

Sharon begged her family to sneak take-aways into the hospital where she was on a strict diet and horrified witnesses saw relatives smuggling fast food to the gorging mum of four.

And she was so huge that a trolley COLLAPSED as she was wheeled to the mortuary.

Last night an NHS source told The Sun less than two weeks after we revealed how Sharon was the UK's most overweight woman: "She simply would not stop eating.

"She obviously had a serious underlying problem with food, but did nothing to help herself.

"Those who came to visit her in hospital did her no favours.

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Appetite

"We saw them bringing in various fatty foods like fish and chips and huge portions of fried chicken when she should not have been eating these things.

"It was infuriating to see her literally eating herself to death."

Earlier this month The Sun told how devoted husband Bulent had been forced to give up his job to care for Sharon.

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Slim ... bride Sharon Mevsimler in her 20s

Before she was taken to hospital she had spent four years too fat to get out of bed in Chelmsford, Essex.

The mum - whose weight was NORMAL when she got married in her 20s - blamed post natal depression for her piling on the pounds as she became addicted to comfort eating.

She blasted the NHS, saying: "I have been left to die. If I was anorexic I would get proper help. But no one has sympathy for obese people."

Sharon's bulk put so much strain on her lungs she needed an oxygen tank to breathe.

She was repeatedly warned she was eating herself to death.

But she refused to stop bingeing - despite undergoing a £30,000 op on the NHS earlier this year to have a gastric band fitted. It was meant to have curbed her gargantuan appetite.

Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford - where the mum had been a patient for two months - refused to comment yesterday.

But a source confirmed: "She died on Saturday. Because of her weight, hospital staff had to be very careful how she was moved." Sharon's grief-stricken loved-ones were yesterday preparing to make special funeral arrangements for the mum.

A supersize coffin big enough for her will have to be found.

The mum's death comes just months after Britain's biggest man - 70-stone Paul Mason, from Ipswich - underwent surgery.

Yesterday one NHS worker said: "No one could believe how big Sharon was. She was so fat she could not walk."

Another told The Sun: "There is only so much the Health Service can do for someone with this kind of problem. In the past she begged the NHS for help.

"But in the end the patient turned around and threw it back in their face - by going back to her old ways.

"Many people are very angry about the fact food that was known to be bad for her was brought into the hospital.

"The matter was raised a number of times, but the problem persisted. By the end many staff were at their wits' end.

"It is tragic - what we would call truly a 21st century tragedy.

"This woman was only 40. But she literally ate herself into an early grave."


My View
By CAROL COOPER Sun Doctor

THERE are so many reasons apart from hunger why people eat - when we feel miserable, simply because it tastes good or to join in when our friends are eating.

But once people get to a size which means they cannot get out and about, food is the only thing they have left in their life.

Eating becomes the be all and end all and it is the one thing that can give them pleasure - even if it is going to kill them.

Their eating has spiralled out of control and they no longer think of food as being fuel for the body. Eating junk has become a habit that they cannot quit.

It is well-known that friends and family of someone who is in hospital having treatment for obesity will sneak food on to the wards.

They are as blind to the dangers as the person who is eating themself to death.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3068364/Britains-fattest-woman-dies.html

[thrillerchild]

I've got no sympathy to this woman at all. I know she's not looking for it but eating yourself to an early grave is downright wrong and selfish. Having been 4 stone heavier in the past (compared to this is nothing I know) I was ridiculed relentlessly because of it and I never used to enjoy life during that time.

[MechaJackson]

Her husband is encouraging it?

I guess he is taking the "Mo cushion fo the pushin'" mentality a bit too far...

[Darth Sidious]

Paul mason looks like Jabba the hut, when he starts whining in this interview I half expected him to say "Bring me Solo and the wookie! They will all suffer for this outrage!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsttC-OP_c

[Agent M]

'My four-year-old daughter is my feeder': Shocking Confession of World's Fattest Mother

Last updated at 1:13 PM on 6th July 2011

She holds the dubious honour of being the Guinness Book Of Records' fattest woman ever to give birth, requiring a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

Now, four years on, Donna Simpson has gained a further 12st and, staggeringly, continues to eat as she attempts to reach 72st and land a second record as the world's most obese woman.

And after splitting from long-term partner and feeder Philippe Gouamba [second pic], the 50st mother is relying on her four year-old daughter Jacqueline to bring her food to help her reach her goal.


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The single mother-of-two, who eats over 15,000 calories a day to sustain her weight gain, struggles to get around and enlists the help of Jacqueline to buy and prepare food.

The New Jersey mother told Closer magazine: She helps me cook and comes shopping. I use a scooter to get around the store and she runs ahead to get my favourite foods.

'Anyone who says I'm setting a bad example should shut their mouth - they don't know how much I love her.'

And Donna, who struggles to walk and suffers high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes, says that Jacqueline adores her large stomach.

'She's my little angel,' she says.

In contrast to her mother, Donna says Jacqueline eats healthily. 'She loves salad and plays sports,' she insists.

'I've taught her to accept all sizes. If she wasn't around to feed me, I'd have given up on my supersize dream.'

Donna says she is looking for a new feeder to take the pressure off her young daughter.

'He must be handsome, slim, and at least 10 years younger than me,' she says.

Her ex-partner Philippe - who Donna says loved her size - was a 6ft 4, 13st fitness fanatic. The two met on a dating site for plus-size people, even though Philippe weighed just 10st at the time.

He supported her 15,000-calorie a day diet and was a 'belly man' who loved her enormous shape.

Any takers needn't worry about funding the food bills these days.

Donna pays for her £500 weekly shopping bill with profits from a website she has set up for 'fat admirers' who pay to look at photographs of her eating.

She has 7,000 fans and makes £60,000 a year.

'My four-year-old daughter is my feeder': Shocking Confession of World's Fattest Mother (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2011437/Worlds-fattest-mother-Donna-Simpsons-daughter-4-feeder.html)

[DanceofLorelei1994]

^ She makes £60,000?!?! What is wrong with people?

*moonwalks out*

[Severus Snape]

...and makes £60,000 a year. http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs24/f/2007/334/9/e/_capitalistjawdrop__by_hku.gif

Some people are struggling to barely survive by doing/looking for actual work, and this woman makes a more comfortable living by just stuffing herself?! -sigh-

Anyway, thanks for posting. I've already lost much of my appetite these past few weeks, and this will no doubt keep that trend going.

[mjjesamor]

What a disgusting selfish creature

[kindofdisco]

Man, so many poorer children could be fed with that amount of money. How very selfish of her.

[kissybissy]

That's the face of stupidity. Stupid woman.

[DanceofLorelei1994]

She's disgusting. There is enough food in the world for EVERYONE. No one should ever have to starve but guess why they do? Because we in the west stuff ourselves. We really are to blame.

[Ashtanga]

'My four-year-old daughter is my feeder': Shocking Confession of World's Fattest Mother

Last updated at 1:13 PM on 6th July 2011

She holds the dubious honour of being the Guinness Book Of Records' fattest woman ever to give birth, requiring a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

Now, four years on, Donna Simpson has gained a further 12st and, staggeringly, continues to eat as she attempts to reach 72st and land a second record as the world's most obese woman.

And after splitting from long-term partner and feeder Philippe Gouamba [second pic], the 50st mother is relying on her four year-old daughter Jacqueline to bring her food to help her reach her goal.


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The single mother-of-two, who eats over 15,000 calories a day to sustain her weight gain, struggles to get around and enlists the help of Jacqueline to buy and prepare food.

The New Jersey mother told Closer magazine: She helps me cook and comes shopping. I use a scooter to get around the store and she runs ahead to get my favourite foods.

'Anyone who says I'm setting a bad example should shut their mouth - they don't know how much I love her.'

And Donna, who struggles to walk and suffers high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes, says that Jacqueline adores her large stomach.

'She's my little angel,' she says.

In contrast to her mother, Donna says Jacqueline eats healthily. 'She loves salad and plays sports,' she insists.

'I've taught her to accept all sizes. If she wasn't around to feed me, I'd have given up on my supersize dream.'

Donna says she is looking for a new feeder to take the pressure off her young daughter.

'He must be handsome, slim, and at least 10 years younger than me,' she says.

Her ex-partner Philippe - who Donna says loved her size - was a 6ft 4, 13st fitness fanatic. The two met on a dating site for plus-size people, even though Philippe weighed just 10st at the time.

He supported her 15,000-calorie a day diet and was a 'belly man' who loved her enormous shape.

Any takers needn't worry about funding the food bills these days.

Donna pays for her £500 weekly shopping bill with profits from a website she has set up for 'fat admirers' who pay to look at photographs of her eating.

She has 7,000 fans and makes £60,000 a year.

'My four-year-old daughter is my feeder': Shocking Confession of World's Fattest Mother (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2011437/Worlds-fattest-mother-Donna-Simpsons-daughter-4-feeder.html)


:wtf:


This is so wrong. This woman is killing herself slowly and giving a bad example for her daughter. Sad.

[Travis]

That woman is mentally ill and will die before she ever reaches her goal. How sick. I have nothing against people who are naturally on the large side, but this is is disgusting. She should seriously be evaluated and possibly have her kid taken away. That's how strongly I feel about this.

[Severus Snape]

I agree with Travis. She will probably die before she reaches her desired weight. Can you imagine how traumatizing it will be for that young girl when she finds out that her mother died due to all the food she ate? If she's her "feeder," the little one will put two and two together in the weird way only children can attempt logic and blame herself for her mother's demise, when in truth the mother is the only one at fault. Try telling that to a child, though.

[makaveli_80]

I really dunno why some ppl are mad, its not good, and it aint going to get you anywhere in doing such dangerous things.

[xthunderx2]

Lordy...I guess she doesnt care if her child will be motherless.because the way she is going...she will die before her child is grown....to bad she is setting such a bad example for her.

[schizophrenic]

The world is full of stupid people. This is just another example. lol

[kissybissy]

She's mentally ill, no doubt.

[Severus Snape]

I dunno about mentally ill, kissybissy. I think plain stupidity alone is to blame in this instance. None of what she has said would suggest mental illness--just plain foolhardiness and a dumb ambition to hold a title which has no real value. Perhaps she's a narcissist? Entitled to be the most special obese person ever? I dunno.

[Travis]

I dunno about mentally ill, kissybissy. I think plain stupidity alone is to blame in this instance. None of what she has said would suggest mental illness--just plain foolhardiness and a dumb ambition to hold a title which has no real value. Perhaps she's a narcissist? Entitled to be the most special obese person ever? I dunno.

I'll settle on mentally ill. You have to have serious issues to do something like that on purpose. There are plenty of naturally heavy set people or ones who got that way slowly over time would like to slap the snot out of this woman for intentionally doing this to herself!

[Severus Snape]

^I don't think so. Although not something most people would understand, obesity in its morbid scope like this would not in and of itself be a symptom of mental illness. The only scenario I could think of where weight gain would be a symptom of mental illness would be someone who is depressed "eating" their feelings, but they wouldn't have a goal to be the fattest ever, or whatever. They usually feel like s--t afterwards, whereas this woman exhibits nothing of the sort and appears to be quite content with the life she's leading.

Therefore, I would sum it up as her being stupid and selfish.

[kindofdisco]

^ Her mind frame on her desire to be that big is ample enough evidence of a mental illness, or a problem. The average person does not have that need to become that big. It's not stupidity or ignorance, she's obviously extremely effected by what happened to her as a child that was explained in the article. She needs help.

[Severus Snape]

I dunno. I'm still not convinced to write it off as just that. The "mentally ill" label is used too liberally these days to excuse or otherwise write off poor life choices and the circumstances behind them. Responses to environmental triggers wouldn't in and of themselves be signs of mental illness--the entire point of mental illness is that it has to already be present (genetic predisposition), at the very least like a looming shadow in the horizon of the mind, if not actively exhibiting itself already. I read her story, and it all just smacks of poor life choices and learned behaviours, not mental illness. Since childhood, her mother fed her junk food, which was an obvious poor choice made <i>for</i> her, but she chose to continue it after her mother's death, because her mother had <i>taught</i> her to associate food with love.

This is a learned behaviour, therefore, it is not a mental illness. However, I think her mother's death accentuates that erroneous teaching, as the normal grieving process was deviated by adding a new manner of grieving--eating. Eating reminded her of her mother, so as long as she ate, there was no need to truly "accept" that her mother's love was gone, etc. Grief is not mental illness--I believe that was her problem in her youth: unresolved grief.

Once she married and her first husband told her that she looked sexier when she was fatter, then the entire rationale for making poor life choices changed from grief to approval. She loved him, so she sought his approval by eating, so all her life she's been using food as an instrument rather than mere nourishment, which in and of itself does not indicate mental illness, since there is no evidence that she would have turned to food as an outlet for her feelings if her mother hadn't originally taught her to associate food with love/comfort/safety, and her two husbands hadn't later introduced the concept of eating/gaining weight as a means to gain approval/sex appeal (think of it as inverse dieting--after all, those are the same reasons why people diet, and that's not very natural either).

Later on, the men she contacted via the obese lovers websites fed her ego with compliments and presents,further discouraging her from changing her life habits for the better (and reminding her of her mother's original defence of her weight against the doctor's [and society's] disapproving words). Reading pro-obese literature of dubious health value has convinced her that she's <i>healthy</i>, the same way people of the long ago were convinced that tobacco was a suitable cure for cancer, or cocaine could cure morphine addiction "without any further cravings", as Sigmund Freud would later write (how true that turned out to be...) In her case, however, she beleives these things because she wants them to be true, that way nothing has to <i>change</i>. In her mind, she's associated change with negative things like loss via the death of her mother, and the loss through divorce of her two husbands.

Had those ideas originated in her mind, I would entertain mental illness as it obviously shows a serious deviation in reasoning, however, she's <i>learned</i> all these things from the outside, from her environment, and her reactions to life events <i>in the abstract</i> appear to be totally normal (grief, seeking acceptance, wanting to be praised), even if the concrete expression of these reactions is obviously not. I'd say she has really poor coping mechanisms, all of them learned, which is not at all uncommon. The results of these poor ways to cope with loss, grief, and change are more apparent in her case than in others' (i.e. someone who smokes to deal with the same things, or buys things) only because of the method she uses.

[DanceofLorelei1994]

I dunno. I'm still not convinced to write it off as just that. The "mentally ill" label is used too liberally these days to excuse or otherwise write off poor life choices and the circumstances behind them. Responses to environmental triggers wouldn't in and of themselves be signs of mental illness--the entire point of mental illness is that it has to already be present (genetic predisposition), at the very least like a looming shadow in the horizon of the mind, if not actively exhibiting itself already. I read her story, and it all just smacks of poor life choices and learned behaviours, not mental illness. Since childhood, her mother fed her junk food, which was an obvious poor choice made <i>for</i> her, but she chose to continue it after her mother's death, because her mother had <i>taught</i> her to associate food with love.

This is a learned behaviour, therefore, it is not a mental illness. However, I think her mother's death accentuates that erroneous teaching, as the normal grieving process was deviated by adding a new manner of grieving--eating. Eating reminded her of her mother, so as long as she ate, there was no need to truly "accept" that her mother's love was gone, etc. Grief is not mental illness--I believe that was her problem in her youth: unresolved grief.

Once she married and her first husband told her that she looked sexier when she was fatter, then the entire rationale for making poor life choices changed from grief to approval. She loved him, so she sought his approval by eating, so all her life she's been using food as an instrument rather than mere nourishment, which in and of itself does not indicate mental illness, since there is no evidence that she would have turned to food as an outlet for her feelings if her mother hadn't originally taught her to associate food with love/comfort/safety, and her two husbands hadn't later introduced the concept of eating/gaining weight as a means to gain approval/sex appeal (think of it as inverse dieting--after all, those are the same reasons why people diet, and that's not very natural either).

Later on, the men she contacted via the obese lovers websites fed her ego with compliments and presents,further discouraging her from changing her life habits for the better (and reminding her of her mother's original defence of her weight against the doctor's [and society's] disapproving words). Reading pro-obese literature of dubious health value has convinced her that she's <i>healthy</i>, the same way people of the long ago were convinced that tobacco was a suitable cure for cancer, or cocaine could cure morphine addiction "without any further cravings", as Sigmund Freud would later write (how true that turned out to be...) In her case, however, she beleives these things because she wants them to be true, that way nothing has to <i>change</i>. In her mind, she's associated change with negative things like loss via the death of her mother, and the loss through divorce of her two husbands.

Had those ideas originated in her mind, I would entertain mental illness as it obviously shows a serious deviation in reasoning, however, she's <i>learned</i> all these things from the outside, from her environment, and her reactions to life events <i>in the abstract</i> appear to be totally normal (grief, seeking acceptance, wanting to be praised), even if the concrete expression of these reactions is obviously not. I'd say she has really poor coping mechanisms, all of them learned, which is not at all uncommon. The results of these poor ways to cope with loss, grief, and change are more apparent in her case than in others' (i.e. someone who smokes to deal with the same things, or buys things) only because of the method she uses.

Just read this entire post slowly whilst eating my salad. This person should be a doctor or something *smiles*. You should get Twitter just so I can follow you on it (but I doubt you do, you probably have a rational theory against it (I'm being serious not sarcastic).

[Severus Snape]

^Stalkter? I mean, Twitter? Nah, I don't have one. I think I have a fluke account (similar to my facebook) just to keep up with MJJC and some other people. But, I don't use Twiter at all.

Thanks for the compliments! :P

[DanceofLorelei1994]

^Stalkter? I mean, Twitter? Nah, I don't have one. I think I have a fluke account (similar to my facebook) just to keep up with MJJC and some other people. But, I don't use Twiter at all.

Thanks for the compliments! :P


Could have bet my life you would say that. LMAO.

[Agent M]

30-Stone Mother Admits to Feeding Triplets Junk Food... and to Giving Them their First McDonald's at Just SIX MONTHS

She made history as the fattest ever mother of triplets, weighing in at 40 stone.

But far from ensuring her babies don't go the same way she did, Leanne Salt is happy to admit feeding them junk food, including fish and chips and McDonald's meals.

Yesterday the 24-year-old - still dangerously overweight at 30 stone - told of her approach to motherhood which doctors say is certain to leave them facing health problems.

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Big girl: The 24-year-old, who blames her obesity on a thyroid problem, fell pregnant after seeing her then-boyfriend for just four weeks

'They were six months old when they had their first McDonald's,' she said. 'They had chicken nuggets and chips and loved it.

'They like fish and chips too, but I take the batter off the fish, so I guess that's healthy.'

Miss Salt's immense weight meant the safe delivery of her triplets - daughters Deanna and Daisy, and son Finlee - last August was a major challenge for medics.

It took a 68-strong team and a bill for the NHS of £200,000, including a specially-built operating table for her Caesarean section.

Now back home in Coventry and living on benefits, she says she is too busy to prepare proper meals for her triplets or do much in the way of housework.

Miss Salt, who blames her obesity on a thyroid problem, fell pregnant after seeing her then boyfriend for just four weeks.

They split up halfway through her pregnancy, and she now lives with her mother Jane, 46, and brother Blane, neither of whom is overweight.

The babies each consume around 1,249 calories a day, nearly double the recommended 765 for their 17lb weight at the age of eight months.

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Danger diet: Leanne Salt, who weighs 30 stone, happily admits feeding her triplets junk food, including fish and chips and McDonald's meals

But their mother denies they are suffering as a result.

'Babies are always hungry,' she said. 'Sometimes it's easier to give them food that's already prepared.

'Anyway, they don't always have junk food - sometimes I cook a microwave meal for them. My babies are healthy.'

She receives total benefits of £227 a week - £140 tax credit, £42 child benefit and £45 family allowance - which she spends on her ten-a-day cigarette habit and food.

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Health risk: Leanne is happy to feed her eight-month-olds junk food, such as chicken nuggets, once or twice a week

On an average day the triplets each have an 8oz bottle of milk at around 5.30am, another at 8am, and a crumpet with butter for breakfast.

Lunch could be scrambled eggs on toast, instant mashed potato with spaghetti hoops, or a jar of baby food, followed by a packet of Wotsits each at about 2pm.

Dinner at around 4pm could be a microwave lasagne or pie which their mother chews so they can manage it, and they sometimes have another bottle of milk before bed, although their mother says they're often too full.

'I'm happy to give them fish and chips or chicken nuggets and chips as a treat once or twice a week,' she explained.

'I feed my babies vegetables every Sunday, and a lot of the baby food I give them has fruit in it. The health visitor told me off for giving them Smash because it has too much salt in, but it's difficult to know what to feed them sometimes.'

She is not alone - earlier this month a survey by the Infant and Toddler Forum found 29 per cent of children under the age of three ate a takeaway at least once a week, while 23 per cent eat crisps and 16 per cent drink fizzy drinks almost every day.

While the triplets' weight is currently normal for their age, they were born five weeks premature so have had a lot of catching up to do, and doctors say their diet is totally unsuitable.

'Although babies should be weaned from six months onwards, they should be given a balanced diet,' said Dr Pyusha Kapila of St John and St Elizabeth Hospital, London.

'Foods high in salt and fat can lead to diarrhoea, hyperactivity, diabetes and, in extreme cases, fitting and fatal heart attacks.

'These children are at extreme risk of becoming overweight in the near future if their diet continues in this way.'

The house is full of unwashed laundry and piles of toys, and Miss Salt says she and her babies only get dressed and go out once a week to collect her benefits.

But they are seen regularly by a health visitor and have weekly visits from a trained helper from the Government's Sure Start scheme.

Her own mother says she buys in salads, but as she has to go out for work as a carer and is the only one in the house who cooks, they never get eaten.

However Miss Salt - who herself consumes 50 per cent more calories than a woman's recommended daily diet, snacking on cakes, crisps and chocolate - is convinced, bizarrely, that watching what you eat could lead to anorexia.

'I do worry my kids could get picked on if they get fat, but I'd tell them that big is beautiful.'

And she now wants her own council house: 'I know how to microwave a meal and make up instant mash, so I think we'd all manage.'

30-Stone Mother Admits to Feeding Triplets Junk Food... and to Giving Them their First McDonald's at Just SIX MONTHS (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174210/30-stone-mother-feeds-baby-triplets-junk-food-diet--admits-McDonalds-just-months.html#ixzz1vywuc64n)

[Ashtanga]

30-Stone Mother Admits to Feeding Triplets Junk Food... and to Giving Them their First McDonald's at Just SIX MONTHS

She made history as the fattest ever mother of triplets, weighing in at 40 stone.

But far from ensuring her babies don't go the same way she did, Leanne Salt is happy to admit feeding them junk food, including fish and chips and McDonald's meals.

Yesterday the 24-year-old - still dangerously overweight at 30 stone - told of her approach to motherhood which doctors say is certain to leave them facing health problems.

http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac143/MichaelJennings/37e6503e.jpg
Big girl: The 24-year-old, who blames her obesity on a thyroid problem, fell pregnant after seeing her then-boyfriend for just four weeks

'They were six months old when they had their first McDonald's,' she said. 'They had chicken nuggets and chips and loved it.

'They like fish and chips too, but I take the batter off the fish, so I guess that's healthy.'

Miss Salt's immense weight meant the safe delivery of her triplets - daughters Deanna and Daisy, and son Finlee - last August was a major challenge for medics.

It took a 68-strong team and a bill for the NHS of £200,000, including a specially-built operating table for her Caesarean section.

Now back home in Coventry and living on benefits, she says she is too busy to prepare proper meals for her triplets or do much in the way of housework.

Miss Salt, who blames her obesity on a thyroid problem, fell pregnant after seeing her then boyfriend for just four weeks.

They split up halfway through her pregnancy, and she now lives with her mother Jane, 46, and brother Blane, neither of whom is overweight.

The babies each consume around 1,249 calories a day, nearly double the recommended 765 for their 17lb weight at the age of eight months.

http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac143/MichaelJennings/9e17ed78.jpg
Danger diet: Leanne Salt, who weighs 30 stone, happily admits feeding her triplets junk food, including fish and chips and McDonald's meals

But their mother denies they are suffering as a result.

'Babies are always hungry,' she said. 'Sometimes it's easier to give them food that's already prepared.

'Anyway, they don't always have junk food - sometimes I cook a microwave meal for them. My babies are healthy.'

She receives total benefits of £227 a week - £140 tax credit, £42 child benefit and £45 family allowance - which she spends on her ten-a-day cigarette habit and food.

http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac143/MichaelJennings/163f2a64.jpg
Health risk: Leanne is happy to feed her eight-month-olds junk food, such as chicken nuggets, once or twice a week

On an average day the triplets each have an 8oz bottle of milk at around 5.30am, another at 8am, and a crumpet with butter for breakfast.

Lunch could be scrambled eggs on toast, instant mashed potato with spaghetti hoops, or a jar of baby food, followed by a packet of Wotsits each at about 2pm.

Dinner at around 4pm could be a microwave lasagne or pie which their mother chews so they can manage it, and they sometimes have another bottle of milk before bed, although their mother says they're often too full.

'I'm happy to give them fish and chips or chicken nuggets and chips as a treat once or twice a week,' she explained.

'I feed my babies vegetables every Sunday, and a lot of the baby food I give them has fruit in it. The health visitor told me off for giving them Smash because it has too much salt in, but it's difficult to know what to feed them sometimes.'

She is not alone - earlier this month a survey by the Infant and Toddler Forum found 29 per cent of children under the age of three ate a takeaway at least once a week, while 23 per cent eat crisps and 16 per cent drink fizzy drinks almost every day.

While the triplets' weight is currently normal for their age, they were born five weeks premature so have had a lot of catching up to do, and doctors say their diet is totally unsuitable.

'Although babies should be weaned from six months onwards, they should be given a balanced diet,' said Dr Pyusha Kapila of St John and St Elizabeth Hospital, London.

'Foods high in salt and fat can lead to diarrhoea, hyperactivity, diabetes and, in extreme cases, fitting and fatal heart attacks.

'These children are at extreme risk of becoming overweight in the near future if their diet continues in this way.'

The house is full of unwashed laundry and piles of toys, and Miss Salt says she and her babies only get dressed and go out once a week to collect her benefits.

But they are seen regularly by a health visitor and have weekly visits from a trained helper from the Government's Sure Start scheme.

Her own mother says she buys in salads, but as she has to go out for work as a carer and is the only one in the house who cooks, they never get eaten.

However Miss Salt - who herself consumes 50 per cent more calories than a woman's recommended daily diet, snacking on cakes, crisps and chocolate - is convinced, bizarrely, that watching what you eat could lead to anorexia.

'I do worry my kids could get picked on if they get fat, but I'd tell them that big is beautiful.'

And she now wants her own council house: 'I know how to microwave a meal and make up instant mash, so I think we'd all manage.'

30-Stone Mother Admits to Feeding Triplets Junk Food... and to Giving Them their First McDonald's at Just SIX MONTHS (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174210/30-stone-mother-feeds-baby-triplets-junk-food-diet--admits-McDonalds-just-months.html#ixzz1vywuc64n)

:no:


Poor children.