64:, the youngest of four children. When she was a child, her mother made big meals for her and her family. At school, she was bullied and nicknamed "fatty four-eyes". After her mother died, her father remarried. When she was nine years old, she weighed 184 lbs. Along with taking diet pills, her stepmother starved her. Her stepmother was very cruel to her. She took diet pills during her adolescence to lose weight. By the time she was eighteen, she had slimmed down to 154 pounds (70 kg). She graduated from
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potatoes, 4.5 kg (10 lbs) roast, 2.3 kg (5 lbs) mashed, five loaves of bread, 2.3 kg of herb stuffing, three liters of gravy, three liters of cranberry dressing and an astonishing 9 kg (20 lbs) of vegetables, and the dessert consisted of
Ambrosia salad made of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies. The dinner reportedly took Simpson and her family two hours to consume."
44:, in competition with Susanne Eman. She wished to attain a target weight of 800 pounds (360 kg). As of June 2010, Simpson weighed 602 pounds (273 kg), down from her weight of 630 pounds (290 kg) in 2008. Simpson maintained a website where fans paid to watch her eat. In 2010, she won the
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In late 2010, Simpson was contacted by a magazine editor who told her "they were going to buy her
Christmas dinner for her family". Simpson and her family ate a 30,000-calorie Christmas dinner consisting of "two 11 kg (25 lb) turkeys, two maple-glazed hams, 6.8 kg (15 lbs) of
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Phillippe Gouamba in an online chat room for overweight women. Gouamba said: "I’ve always been attracted to big women, but Donna is my fantasy. The more she weighs, the sexier she is." They planned to get married in a ceremony at dawn on a mountain in
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Simpson, a chef at a steak restaurant. They got married the following year. He encouraged her to eat by bringing leftovers home from work for her; Simpson said "he liked me supersized". They had a son together and subsequently divorced.
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92:. She became the heaviest woman ever to give birth. At the time she weighed 532 pounds (241 kg). Six months after giving birth, she decided that her target weight would be 800 pounds (363 kg). However, during her pregnancy, she developed
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100:. Gouamba said he supports her goal: "Gaining weight makes Donna happy and seeing her happy makes me happy." He is one of her biggest supporters in her journey to reach 1,000 pounds.
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