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Default She wants to be the World's Fattest Woman - 03-17-2010, 06:03

I spotted this and asked myself is she grossly stupid or just stupidly gross?

Her weekly grocery bill is over $800 (£520 - €580)

Full story here


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Default 03-17-2010, 06:31

ugg, some fat women make it hard to be a fat woman. She won't know what she's giving up until its gone.


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Default 03-17-2010, 12:05

She'll never make it in time. Good idea to get people to donate money for watching you eat though!
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Default 03-17-2010, 13:59

You know, seeing stuff like this saddens me and makes me gasp at the deep and ugly stupidity of people.

Sorry for the language and bad grammar, but what a fucking utter waste of skin this idiot is, and she is a parent too.

And the same goes for the (I shudder to think) losers who would pay to watch her eat junk food. I mean come on...

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Default 03-17-2010, 15:16

Articles I've read hint she's got some sort of psychological disorder and a few co addicts in her family who supported this behaviour in the first place. Hope she gets help before she's harmed herself and her family (the kid she's got to look after) seriously. (I know the popular connection between BMI and health often is superficial - but gaining that forcibly and quickly can, for example, do more damage on the liver than years of binge drinking.)


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I can't find the alleged website?
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Default 03-17-2010, 19:05

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I can't find the alleged website?
The link is still live and working.

But here it is again... Woman aims to become world's fattest


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Default 03-17-2010, 19:37

*Shrug*

Maye it's just a defense mechanism, but when i see things like this i just assume it's bullshit. After all, it's the daily sodding mail that did the interview.


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Default 03-18-2010, 00:18

I think I'm at the 'I'll believe practically anything' stage in my life. After seeing some of the things that come through my desk as a medical publisher...I'll believe practically anything - up to and including the report on a guy who used a soda bottle as an 'aide' to happy happy time*, and when it got stuck on his whatsit refused to seek medical help; he was found dead in his room by his flat mate a few days later after developing blood poisoning. I pretty much think this could be true ('I wanna die' lady).

There are people out there who are, unfortunately, really good candidates for psychiatric assistance.


*There were pictures so I pretty much had to believe. It's amazing what will make a 57 year old woman who used to baby sit you have to sit down on the floor because she's laughing too hard....oooh, the stories we could tell...


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Default 03-18-2010, 03:21

She was on the news last night giving interviews. She has a website where you can donate and watch her eat... The photo on it is hideous.

Sometimes you wish people could be arrested for being stupid.


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*Shrug*

Maye it's just a defense mechanism, but when i see things like this i just assume it's bullshit. After all, it's the daily sodding mail that did the interview.
Yeah, that's why I said I can't find the 'alleged website'.
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She was on the news last night giving interviews. She has a website where you can donate and watch her eat... The photo on it is hideous.

Sometimes you wish people could be arrested for being stupid.
Where is the website then?
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Default 03-18-2010, 15:09

The lady in question is called Donna Simpson ( not to be confused with Donna Lea Simpson who I believe is an author)

To add to the confusion, a recent google search also revealed she models on a glamour site under the name of 'Treasure'.

I have no idea if the given link works or not, but for those of you that appear keen to see her for yourself the link is here.

@Sweepers Feel free to remove the link if you find it offensive.


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Default 03-19-2010, 01:25

I think the whole subject is fairly odd just because it's been reported on. It's so olde-worlde-shock-horror-people-are-wierd-web circa 8 years ago.
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Default 03-22-2010, 01:48

I can't find it either it seems to have been buried by all the news articles about her... How to get lost in your own publicity: A lesson to us all.


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