Paul Mason, 50, from England, was once considered the world’s fattest man at 980 pounds.
however, he recently had gastric bypass surgery and is already down to 560 lbs.
She says her 20,000-calorie-a-day diet has something to do with her extreme size, but she also blames England’s national health service for not letting her see an eating disorder specialist when she weighed just over 400 pounds.
Donna Simpson (born 1967) is an American woman who expressed her desire to become one of the heaviest women in the world in 2008.
He wanted to reach a goal weight of 1,000 pounds (450 kg).
As of June 2010, Simpson weighed 602 pounds (273 kg), down from 630 pounds (290 kg) in 2008.
In 2010, she entered the Guinness Book of Records under the title “Heaviest woman to give birth”. In August 2011, Simpson decided to go on a diet to reduce her weight to 370 pounds (170 kg) so she could be more self-sufficient and do a better job of raising her children.
3 Manuel Uribe
Manuel Uribe (born June 11, 1965) is a morbidly obese man from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to one of the largest proportions known in recorded history.
Uribe, who has been bedridden since 2001 and weighed around 597 kg (1,320 lb), has lost nearly 400 pounds.
(one-third of body weight, about 181.8 kg) with the help of doctors and nutritionists and following the Zone diet.
Uribe gained worldwide attention in January 2006 when he appeared on the television network Televisa, but rejected offers of gastric bypass surgery in Italy.
Uribe appeared in “The World’s Heaviest Man,” a television documentary about his life as a bedridden patient and his efforts to overcome the disease.
By October 26, 2008, Uribe was down to 360 kg (790 lb).
As of February 2012, he weighs 440 pounds.
4 Robert Earl Hughes
Robert Earl Hughes (June 4, 1926 – July 10, 1958) was the heaviest man in recorded history during his lifetime.
Hughes’ excess weight was attributed to a malfunctioning pituitary gland.
Its chest measured 3.15 meters (10.3 ft) and at its heaviest it weighed 486 kilograms (1,070 lb).
At the time of his death, he weighed more than half a ton.
As an adult, Hughes performed as a guest at carnivals and fairs; Plans to appear on the Ed Sullivan television program were announced but never materialized.
On July 10, 1958, Hughes contracted measles, which soon turned into uremia, resulting in his death in Bayliss, Illinois.
S.; he was 32 years old.
He is often said to be buried in a piano case.
This error stems from the sentence “He was buried in a coffin the size of a piano case” appearing in successive editions of the Guinness Book of World Records. His headstone records him as the heaviest man in the world at a certified 1,041 pounds (472 kg).
5 Kenneth Brumley
Kenneth Brumley was one of the heaviest people ever recorded.
He was featured in the Channel 4 BodyShock documentary ‘Half a Ton Dad’ as a father of four weighing almost 74 stone (468kg or 1,035lbs).
According to Kenneth Brumley’s testimony in the documentary, he had been bedridden for four years.
After he was admitted as a gastric bypass patient at Renaissance Hospital in Houston, Texas, fire crews had to tear down a wall in Brumley’s home to get him out.
At Renaissance Hospital, Brumley was treated by the same team of specialists who treated Renee Williams, believed to be the heaviest woman in the world at the time.
The first step in Brumley’s treatment was a restricted diet of 1,200 calories a day, which allowed him to lose 167.5 pounds (76 kg) in just 40 days.
Michael Hebranco (born May 14, 1953) is a morbidly obese individual known as one of the heaviest people in the world.
After a stay at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, he reduced his weight from 411 kg to 90 kg (200 lb) and his waist from 290 cm (110 in) to 91 cm (36 in) in 19 months. With the help of diet and exercise coach Richard Simmons, he entered the Guinness Book of Records for the highest weight loss recorded in 1990.
He lost some of that weight through surgery.
He later toured the United States lecturing about his experiences, advocating diet and exercise, and appeared in commercials promoting Richard Simmons.
“Mayra Rosales Child Murder – 1000 Pound Woman ‘Too Big To Kill'”
A Texas court has ruled that Mayra Rosales, who weighs nearly 1,036 kilograms, is too heavy to raise her arm to kill her 2-year-old nephew, whom she is accused of murdering. In 2008.
8 John Brower Minnoch
This is Jon Brower Minnoch (1941 – 1983) of Bainbridge Island, WA.
tall and weighed over 1,400 pounds.
In 1979, it took 13 people to roll him in bed.
Minnoch, like most heavy people, suffered from massive edema; he gained at least 900 pounds.
The former taxi driver has always been unusually heavy, weighing in at 400 pounds.
in 1966 and 975 lbs.
in 1966 and 975 lbs.
In 1976, however, he claimed he was in no way handicapped by his size until a 500-calorie diet sapped his muscle strength and left him on the brink of death.
At his peak in 1978, Jon Brower tipped the Minnoch 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 a father of two by his 110-pound wife Jeannette.
At 50 stone (£700), a woman believed to be the world’s fattest woman is battling to lose weight after doctors told her she could die.
Terri Smith, locked in her bedroom in her home in Ohio, unable to move, stand or roll over on her own, set a new world record for Fattest Woman in 2010.
By the time she was 20, Terry weighed 18 stone (252lbs), but she remained active and worked as a mental health worker for 20 years.
“I helped people wash, eat and dress,” he said.
Terry is now embarking on a weight-loss regimen of exercise and healthy eating in order to undergo a brain scan and receive the life-saving treatment he may require.
11-year-old Djambik Khatokhov (known as Jambik) from Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, weighed 324 pounds, stood 5’2″, and set the world record for Fattest Child.
Jambik weighed 6 kg at birth.
— a reasonable amount for a baby — but by his first birthday, he was over 28 pounds.
At just three years old, Jambik was lifting weights weighing 7 kg.
Since then, Jambik has gained about 112 lbs.
on a diet of mostly porridge and ice cream.
But his mother Nelya, 42, does not share her doctors’ concerns about Jambik’s weight.
“It’s just growing — up and out,” he said.
Jambik, who wrestles and swims 5 days a week, said, “I want to be an athlete when I grow up.
Dzhambik is popular in Russia and has been featured in many Russian TV shows.