43 stone mother determined to become world's fattest woman

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think that the boyfriend is a "feeder"; someone who gets sexually turned on by feeding. I expect also he likes the fact that his girlfriend is dependant on him. So, he probably does encourage her to eat more and he does need talking to cuz her lifestyle is going to kill her.

[fireheart17]

Agreeing with Lace regarding feeder.

Honestly, this woman is nuts. I do agree that she does need help. I know that my response won't be broadcast to her, but what about showing her what diseased body parts look like? I remember reading an article involving a young girl with a bad drinking habit, being shown the long-terms effects of her alcohol abuse by being shown what her liver would look like and being taken into the ER. Also, some of the smoking ads you see show strokes, tarry lungs, diseased arteries etc.

[Ree]

Aside from all that she is doing to herself, does she realize that her child sees what's happening, and takes her cue from Mom?

I can almost guarantee any children in that home are going to develop an eating disorder of some type.

They may either follow Mom in the footsteps to obesity, or they may develop binging/purging/anorexic type behaviour.

The whole family needs help, and I really hope social services steps in at some point to give them that help.

[elsporko]

Social services is way too busy with abuse and neglect to deal with people who are too fat. She wants to be fat then thats her choice.

[Rapscallion]

Social services is way too busy with abuse and neglect to deal with people who are too fat. She wants to be fat then thats her choice.

What about the choice of others? My taxes go to pay towards health care and social services. I don't want to have to fund someone else's desire to achieve the record books by killing themselves. (On that note, didn't the Guinness records say they weren't accepting records that were likely to cause harm to the attemptee?)

Also, how about people such as emergency medical crews? I read once of the account of one who had to help colleagues carry someone who ate like this out of a building down three flights of stairs. He said that he was straining so much he found piss dribbling down his leg. His back wasn't right for days. He got off lucky - someone else helping to carry the person in question ended up on sick leave with a bad back for a month.

What about that sort of effect?

Rapscallion

[Lace Neil Singer]

It says in the article that thirty medics were needed to assist her while she was giving birth. I'm fairly sure that most of those medics could have been better deployed; for example, saving lives.

[elsporko]

If you want to limit how fat people are allowed to be or what services they can recieve thats fine. What we don't need are CPS workers who are already stretched to the limit going to houses to make sure the parents aren't too fat.

[Fashion Lad!]

I love food. I absolutely love it. But if I start gaining weight, I start getting panicky and destroy myself working out. I can't have the best of both worlds. The scary thing is, the best of both worlds to her is eating a ton of food and gaining a ton of weight. I agree with what others have said, she definitely needs help.

[Nyoibo]

(On that note, didn't the Guinness records say they weren't accepting records that were likely to cause harm to the attemptee?)

Rapscallion

They did indeed.

[Ree]

What we don't need are CPS workers who are already stretched to the limit going to houses to make sure the parents aren't too fat.

Oh, excuse me. For a second there, I got confused about the role that CPS plays in making sure children are in a safe and healthy environment.
Thank you for clearing that up for us.

The environment in that household is emotionally damaging to the children in the home.
They are living in an abusive situation just as surely as if the mother was physically hurting them.

It is a neglectful and emotionally damaging atmosphere.

The mother in that household clearly has mental issues, and the children are being raised with a twisted and warped idea of the purpose of food.

The mother is too obese to properly care for her children, and her goal is to get even bigger.

I'm sure it's much easier to come on a message board and mock the fatty and ridicule her for her choices than it is to actually show compassion and realize the woman is mentally unstable.

[insertNameHere]

People like this is why it would be dangerous to let me become supreme dictator, I mean president of the United States. People like this woman would be an endangered species. I would offer a presidential pardon to whoever was responsible for killing her, because if you can't sanction a few murders, really what kind of president are you. Or better yet, I would just let a diplomat who has immunity from a country such as Ethiopia do the dirty work. That way I wouldn't have to deal with political outcry over abuse of my power. Plus I could secretly divert her share of big macs to Ethiopia as payment.

I hate seeing fat people on scooters, it really makes me want to steal a bus and run them over. Unless of course I can see a cast on their leg or a reason for being on the scooter other than being fat and lazy.

Read the article just go pissed off, HOW CAN YOU BE 600LBS UNABLE TO WALK 25ft and be able to call yourself healthy. I hope she chokes to death while going for the record.

"To fund the massive $750 weekly food shop, she runs a website where men pay her to watch her eat fast food."
Someone needs to get Chris Hansen to catch these guys too.

[Lace Neil Singer]

And the father, too; he is almost certainly a feeder. In case anyone here is unfamiliar with the term; read.

Not Safe For Work!!! Don't click if you are at work or surrounded by kids; just read the quoted part.

Feederism

Feederism describes sexual relationships where both members obtain gratification from the gaining of body fat. Feederism refers to the acts of feeding, encouraging eating, or being served large quantities of food. Sexual pleasure is derived from the act of eating itself, and/or from the process of becoming fatter. Pleasure may be derived from specific changes to specific areas of the body.

The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance specifically condemns feederism, claiming that the practice typically involves coercing a person to become larger. NAAFA compares this to the practice of coercing a person to become thinner and instead focuses on acceptance.

It is not a healthy state of affairs. While I will stress that we don't know this for certain, the fact that the boyf accepts and encourages his girlf's vocation to become the fattest woman, makes it likely that he's a feeder.

My main concern here is for the children; besides the daughter there was another child mentioned. It's not a healthy environment for these kids and something needs to be done about both them and their parents.

[Ree]

And the father, too; he is almost certainly a feeder.

Yes, of course.
I wasn't specific in my comment when I said the children were being raised with an unhealthy idea of food.
I should have mentioned my concern that it was being presented to them with a sexual connotation to it rather than as nutrition for the body.

Thanks for providing the details.

Your comment brought up an interesting point, too.

Would some be so quick to point and laugh and condemn the woman for her choices if she was starving herself into anorexia, or would they recognize that the woman obviously had mental and emotional issues and an unhealthy body image that was affecting her health and risking the possibility of death?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Probably not. There's also the same problem when it comes to eating disorders like binge eating disorder and compulsive eating disorder. People just sneer and say "Eat less, fatty" whereas if it were anorexia or bulimia, they wouldn't say "Eat more, skinny" would they?

[Boozy]

I hate seeing fat people on scooters, it really makes me want to steal a bus and run them over. Unless of course I can see a cast on their leg or a reason for being on the scooter other than being fat and lazy.

That's an extraordinary amount of hatred and bile directed towards people you've never met.

Did an obese person kill your puppy as a child or something?