Paul Mason, a 50-year-old man from England, was once considered the world’s fattest man at 980 pounds
but he recently had gastric bypass surgery and is already down to 560 pounds
She says her 20,000-calorie-a-day diet is attributed to her extreme size, but she also blames Britain’s National Health Service for not allowing her to see an eating disorder specialist when she weighed just over 400 pounds
Donna Simpson (born 1967) is an American woman who in 2008 expressed her desire to be one of the heaviest women in the world
He wanted to reach a goal weight of 1,000 pounds (450 kg)
In June 2010, Simpson weighed 602 pounds (273 kg), down from 630 pounds (290 kg) in 2008
In 2010, she won the Guinness Book of Records in the “heaviest birthing woman” category In August 2011, Simpson decided to go on a diet to reduce her weight to 170 kg in order to become more independent and better able to raise her children
3 Manuel Uribe
Manuel Uribe (born June 11, 1965) is a man from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, who is famous for having one of the greatest rates of morbid obesity known in recorded history
After reaching a peak weight of about 597 kg (1,320 lb) and being bedridden since 2001, Uribe lost about 400 pounds
(a third of his body weight, approx 1818 kg) with the help of doctors and nutritionists, and by following the Zone diet
Uribe came to the world’s attention when he appeared on the Televisa television network in January 2006, but turned down offers to undergo gastric bypass surgery in Italy
Uribe also appeared in the television documentary World’s Heaviest Man, which chronicled his bedridden life and attempts to overcome the disease
By October 26, 2008, Uribe had reduced his weight to 360 kg (790 lb)
In February 2012, he weighed 440 pounds
4 Robert Earl Hughes
Robert Earl Hughes (June 4, 1926 – July 10, 1958) was the heaviest man in world history during his lifetime
Hughes’ overweight was attributed to a malfunctioning pituitary gland
His chest was measured at 315 meters and he weighed 486 kilograms (1,070 lb) at his heaviest
He weighed more than half a ton when he died
Throughout his adult life, Hughes made guest appearances at carnivals and fairs; Plans to appear on the Ed Sullivan television show were announced but did not materialize
On July 10, 1958, Hughes contracted a case of measles, which soon progressed to uremia, and died in Baylis, Illinois
S; He was 32 years old
It is often said that he was buried in a piano
This error stems from the sentence that appeared in successive editions of the Guinness Book of World Records, which read: “He was buried in a coffin the size of a piano stand” His tombstone shows that he was the heaviest man in the world at 1,041 pounds (472 kg)
5 Kenneth Brumley
Kenneth Brumley was one of the heaviest people ever recorded to have his weight confirmed
He featured in Channel 4’s BodyShock documentary ‘Half a Ton Dad’ as a father of four who weighed almost 74 stone (468kg or 1,035lbs)
According to Kenneth Brumley’s statements in the documentary, he had been bedridden for four years
After being admitted as a gastric bypass patient at Renaissance Hospital in Houston, Texas, firefighters had to knock down a wall in Brumley’s house to free him
At Renaissance Hospital, Brumley was treated by the same team of specialists who treated Renee Williams, who was considered the heaviest woman in the world at the time
The first step in Brumley’s treatment was a diet restricted to 1,200 calories a day, which allowed him to lose 1675 pounds (76 kg) in just 40 days
Michael Hebranko (born May 14, 1953) is a morbidly obese individual who is known to be one of the heaviest people in the world
After a 19-month stay at St Luke’s Hospital in New York, he dropped from 411 kg to 90 kg and his waist from 290 cm to 91 cm , with the help of weight loss and exercise coach Richard Simmons, and entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest weight loss in 1990
She lost some of that weight through surgery
He then toured the United States giving talks about his experiences and advocating diet and exercise, and appeared in infomercials promoting Richard Simmons
“Mayra Rosales child murder – 1,000-pound woman too big to kill”
A Texas court has ruled that Mayra Rosales, who weighs about 1,036 pounds, weighs too much and it would have been impossible for her to raise her arm to kill her 2-year-old nephew, whom she is accused of murdering in 2008
8Jon Brower Minnoch
This is Jon Brower Minnoch (1941-1983) of Bainbridge Island, WA
tall and estimated to have weighed “probably more than” 1,400 pounds
In 1979, 13 people only had to knock him over in bed
Minnoch, like many of the heaviest men, suffered from great oedema; his weight has increased by at least 900 pounds
The former taxi driver has always been unusually heavy, reaching 400 pounds
in 1966 and £975
in 1966 and £975
in 1976, but he claimed he was disabled, certainly not because of his size, until a 500-calorie diet ruined his muscle strength and brought him to the brink of death
At his peak in 1978, Jon Brower Minnoch tipped the scales at an estimated 635 kilograms, or 1,397 pounds, or 100 stone if you prefer
He died on September 10, 1983, weighing 362 kilograms or 796 pounds
Minnoch was the father of two children with his 110lb wife Jeannette
The woman believed to be the world’s fattest is struggling to lose 50 stone (700 pounds) after doctors told her she could die
Terri Smith is locked in the bedroom of her home in Ohio, unable to move, stand up or roll over on her own, setting a new world record for the fattest woman in 2010
By the time she was 20, Terri weighed 18 stone (252 pounds) but remained active and worked as a mental health worker for 20 years
“I used to help people wash, feed and dress them,” she said
To get a brain scan and the life-saving treatment she may need, Terri is now embarking on a weight-loss program that includes exercise and a healthy diet
An 11-year-old boy named Dzambik Khatokhov (Jambik) from Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia weighs 324 pounds, 5′ 2″, and sets the world record for the fattest child
At birth, Jambik weighed 6 pounds
– a reasonable amount for a baby – but by his first birthday he was over 28kg
At just three years old, Jambik lifted weights of 7 kg
Since then, Jambik has gained nearly 112 pounds
more about the porridge and ice cream diet
However, his mother, 42-year-old Nelya, does not share their doctor’s concern about Jambik’s heavy weight
“It’s just growing — up and out,” he said
Jambik, who wrestles five days a week and also goes swimming, said: “I want to be an athlete when I grow up
Djambik is famous in Russia and has been featured on many Russian TV shows