43 stone mother determined to become world's fattest woman

[Cat]

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?

Actually, they probably would...I hear it far too often. It comes down to, people suck.

[Ree]

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

Coffee all over my shirt, keyboard and the poor cat sitting on my lap.

That was too freakin funny, Boozy.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

You might not be aware of the famous Fatty Banditos who slaughtered kittens and instigated blood feuds across the globe. For two straights years no skinny person could see a fat person without wondering if that fatty would suddenly hold them down and smear bubblegum in their hair. Traumatizing times indeed...

Related of course to the gay banditos who ransaked every christian home in the bible belt and stole all their feathery clothing accessories.

In all due seriousness though, what the fuck's the problem with a person riding a scooter? who's also fat? Believe it or not, there's a great many reasons more than broken legs to keep someone from being able to walk around all the time. It's almost inevitable that immobile people either were or end up fat, unless they're a mentally unsound binge-eating crazy like the subject of this thread, I don't see the fucking problem.

What is it about not exercising that equals laziness anyway? If I don't feel the need to lose weight and don't enjoy jogging five miles everyday, so fucking be it. It's only lazy when the person wants or needs to do something but couldn't be bothered.

[elsporko]

I don't exercise unless I end up doing it at work. I just don't have the time. I haven't really exercise on a regular basis since high school. Oddly enough I've lost 20 pound since then as I'm eating alot less then I use to. You can't tell how much a person exercise by their size.

And just because a person uses a scooter it doesn't mean they are lazy even if they are big. They could have a serious injury or disability that limits their ability to move which causes them to be big. A friend's dad lost his eyesight and is bigger now because he can't get around easily so he mostly stays at home for example.

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.

This is very touchy territory. How exactly do we decide what possible emotional damage a parent's lifestyle choice can cause to a child? Is having the world's fattest mom worse then having a stage mom who pushes the child to be a movie star? Or two lesbien mom's who are open about their sexuality? Maybe an extremely religious mom isn't any good either.

It isn't the purpose of CPS to decide what kind of lifestyle is right or wrong. They can prove physical abuse. They can sometimes prove mental abuse, although its much tougher. They can't prove that the child might be affected somehow in the future or have a warped sense of reality and definitly would not be able to pull the kid's from the house in that situation. If they even tried then it would be lawsuit city and jobs would be on the line.

[Nyoibo]

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?

I would, but then I'm an asshole.

However the health care profession side of me would also try to find the root of the poblem and treat that too.

[insertNameHere]

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?

Have you ever been at a store looking for something and a person uses there scooter to "nudge" you out of there way without ever saying excuse me?

I don't hate obese people, I hate lazy obese people who feel that the world should bow to them because they can't move, while some have genetics, people like this woman are clearly making a choice and trying to destroy there bodies..

[Boozy]

Have you ever been at a store looking for something and a person uses there scooter to "nudge" you out of there way without ever saying excuse me?

No.

Although just yesterday I was nudged out of the way by a tall blonde man with glasses.

Ooh, how I just hate those tall blonde men with glasses. Every single one of them. They're all the same.

[Plaidman]

Have you ever been at a store looking for something and a person uses there scooter to "nudge" you out of there way without ever saying excuse me?

That happened to me once. I challenged him to a race around the store. He won. Dude was more agile in chair then I was by foot.

I don't hate obese people, I hate lazy obese people who feel that the world should bow to them because they can't move, while some have genetics, people like this woman are clearly making a choice and trying to destroy there bodies..

How can you tell from each person you see on a scooter isn't genetic, or disabled? If you read the story it was how she was raised by her mom. Peoples morality and outlook on life are taught as a child. Its why I can't judge people based on their looks. Its just wrong period. However, to others, it's a natural and right thing to be beautiful all the time.

To put in another way, lets say that you are that huge, (Devil's adocate). You are so heavy you can't do excersise. Your heart cant keep blood flowing. Your lungs are being crushed. Everyday people stare at you, make names, tell you to stop eating.

It makes one bitter. They go home, and even after trying to excersise after a harsh day. They take a bite of cake, and much like chocolate is like sex, it releases endorphines, and makes one feel good.

Can you honestly tell me, that you would rather suffer, be in pain, try in vain to lose your weight and be miserible, then to do the one thing that makes one feel good? We're all hardwire to do what feels good, and what makes us feel right. To alot of obese people, it is food.

[BookstoreEscapee]

This woman lives in my town.


(No, I don't know her. But I'm seeing this story all over the place the last few days. Oddly enough, this British newspaper article is the most detailed one I've seen...)

[Severen13]

Two years from now, when her knees have finally snapped, her organs are being crushed under the mountains of fat, and her family can no longer afford to feed her, she'll be on back on TV begging for someone to help her lose weight.

[Lace Neil Singer]

This woman lives in my town.


(No, I don't know her. But I'm seeing this story all over the place the last few days. Oddly enough, this British newspaper article is the most detailed one I've seen...)

How strange. To both; the fact that you know her, and the fact that an English tabloid would give better detail than a local paper. XD

[BookstoreEscapee]

How strange. To both; the fact that you know her, and the fact that an English tabloid would give better detail than a local paper. XD

I said I don't know her.

Though I admit I was trying to figure out what grocery store she was in in that one picture to see if it was one I ever go to. But my town is actually pretty big so the odds aren't good.

But yeah, most of the "articles" I saw when I looked it up (I first heard it on the radio the other day) were just little 1-2 paragraph blurbs with the photo of her sitting at the table. The one that was linked from fark.com was some blog or something featuring her as "hot slut of the day" with a picture from her website in which she is wearing a bikini....

[Lace Neil Singer]

Whoops sorry; for some reason, I misread it. ^^;; Anyway, I guess she's enough of a novelty to draw the press over here...

[Ree]

This is very touchy territory. How exactly do we decide what possible emotional damage a parent's lifestyle choice can cause to a child? Is having the world's fattest mom worse then having a stage mom who pushes the child to be a movie star? Or two lesbien mom's who are open about their sexuality? Maybe an extremely religious mom isn't any good either.

It isn't the purpose of CPS to decide what kind of lifestyle is right or wrong. They can prove physical abuse. They can sometimes prove mental abuse, although its much tougher. They can't prove that the child might be affected somehow in the future or have a warped sense of reality and definitly would not be able to pull the kid's from the house in that situation. If they even tried then it would be lawsuit city and jobs would be on the line.

If the woman is gorging herself to the point that she is too obese to care for her young children properly, and is on a mission to become even larger, incapacitating herself even further, then I would say that is reason enough for CPS to step in.

Adding all that other stuff is just muddying up the waters and has absolutely no bearing on things at all.

This is not a situation where CPS would be deciding if a lifestyle is wrong.
It is about CPS protecting the welfare of the child.

If there is concern about a mother's mental health affecting her ability to parent her child, and in this case, I would say there is, then CPS has an obligation to take action to ensure the welfare of the child.

If a mother becomes too damned fat to properly function and is unable to clean her house, or even bathe her child, let alone properly bathe herself, or if a mother's addiction (in this case, it's food) is interfering with her ability to properly parent, then I can certainly see a case for CPS stepping in.

I have personally seen them stepping in for less. (Perhaps the rules are different regarding child services where I live.)

[elsporko]

If the house is bad enough to be considered neglect then that is one thing, but there is no evidence of that. Even if the mother herself can't do everything as long as the home and children are taken care of then theres no reason for CPS to be called.


You want CPS to be called in based only on the fact that the mother wants to be fat. You know nothing about how her home is or how she takes care of her children. It is a lifestyle choice by her to be fat. If being fat is worthy of having kids taken away then what should the weight limit be? Obviously fat people are unworthy of having children after all. We should probably make sure those evil handicap people don't have kids either, after all they might be unable to give the kid a bath.