09 MAR 2024
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Paul Mason, 51, was once considered the world's fattest man, weighing in at a shocking 980 pounds (444.5kg). He used to consume 20,000 calories a day, which is 10 times what a normal man consumes.
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Donna Simpson, 45, is an American woman who in 2008 announced that she wanted to become one of the world's heaviest women. Her ideal weight was 1,000 pounds (450kg), and she set up a website where fans paid to watch her eat.
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Born in 1965 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Manuel Uribe is known for having ballooned to the weight of six men. On a diet of tacos and pizzas, he reached a peak weight of around 597kg, and was bed bound since 2001.
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The late Rober Earl Hughes was during his lifetime, the heaviest human recorded in the history of the world. Born in 1958, his excessive weight was attributed to a malfunctioning pituitary gland, and he tipped the scales at 480kg at his heaviest.
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Kenneth Brumley gained the attention of the world when he appeared in Channel 4 BodyShock documentary "Half Ton Dad". A father of four, he weighed almost 468kg, and had been bed bound for four years.
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Michael Hebranko's story is amazing in that during his lifetime, he gained and lost over 3,000 pounds (1,360kg), and gained a special mention by talk show host Oprah, as well as the attention of celebrity fitness coach Richard Simmons. At 34, his weight reached the peak of 1,100 pounds (498kg).
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Mayra Rosales made headline when she was accused of murdering her sister's son - but walked free when the court decided that she was "too big to kill". Rosales, 31, from Texas said her defence was that she could not even have lifted her arm to strike her nephew, being as fat as she was.
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Jon Brower Minnoch lived from 1941 to 1983, and weighed probably more than 635kg. It took 13 people just to roll him over in bed, and he suffered from massive edema - the collection of fluid in the body's tissues.
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'Diet or die': This was what mother-of-one Terri Smith was told when doctors found out she weighed a hefty 317kg. Suffering from intense headaches and needing a brain scan, she was too huge to fit into an MRI machine.
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Known as Jambik, an 11-year-old boy from Russia weighs 147kg at height 157.5cm, setting the world record for the fattest child in the world. At birth, he weighed 2.89kg, which is a reasonable weight for a baby. However, by the time he reached a year old, he weighed 12.7kg, and at age three, he was lifting weights as heavy as 3kg.