This Really Got To Me
 

I don't know what I think about this story :?:
All I know is that it really gets to me

WOMAN AIMS TO BECOME WORLD"S FATTEST WOMAN

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/102...worlds-fattest

That is seriously the craziest thing I ever read, umm to each their own I guess, although she might die before she reaches her "goal" ICK!

Yeah, I posted her yesterday in the general chatter thread. It's unbelievable isn't it. Her poor daughter.

Susie! You beat me to it! I had *just* read that article and copied the link to come paste it here!

I don't know what to think. I know that in this country we have the freedom to pursue happiness in whatever mode makes us happy unless it harms others. I feel sorry for her daughter having to be motherless. The article posted the information of the other women in this "club". They are all dead! Sad, sad, sad!

The thought of being so big that I couldn't move, couldn't wipe myself, couldn't sit up in bed...being so big that some freak somewhere "pleasured himself" while watching me eat a 4500 calorie meal ((she makes a living off of her website that people pay a monthly subscription to watch her eat)) just makes me feel sick.

There is a whole sub-culture of "Fat Fetish" people. I'm not talking about guys that like their girls with a little meat on their bones but rather people who really find sexual pleasure in being a "feeder" or someone who keeps a large woman and provides her with mega calories causing her to gain a ton of weight. I think people who find sexual interest in people of this size suffer from a "parafilia". I don't know what you'd call a person who wanted to eat themselves to death. Suicidal?

I am really working on not judging others, I promise! But this just seems like an odd form of abusive relationship. Being in a relationship with someone who will love you only if you do something that is killing you. I wonder what her husband would do if she changed her mind and decided to be healthy and fit?

That's like that place called "The Heart attack cafe"

I started watching food network and this place just disgusted me by the end. They actually let you eat there for FREE if you weigh over 350 lbs!

I know what to think -- it's AWFUL!

and to describe herself as healthy means that she's severely delusional because even if she's been lucky enough to avoid obesity-related disease (which I don't even believe anyway), she's clearly VERY mentally ill.

I feel badly for the daughter, she's the only real innocent one here. Even the bf is messed up big time by being complicit with this goal.

She is ill. It's terrible.

I did wonder...
 

if child protective services would step in at some point? I know the article didn't say they were fattening the baby up but I remember reading an article once about a family that lost custody of their 9 year old daughter because she weighed something like 200 lbs.

When the state had the little girl in foster care she had consistently lost weight but after the family petitioned to get her back, she began to gain again. The state stepped in after the 3rd month of consistent weight gain back in the home. I remember there was some weird quote by the mom, something like..."What am I supposed to do? She likes to eat. She gets mad if we don't give her what she likes."

I would imagine that now that her goal has been made public and her face, name, hometown info has gone world wide there will be some huge backlash and her family will be under scrutiny by the New Jersey Dept of Children and Families. I don't envy her for many many reasons!

I suspect she is codependent, and he is a fat fetishist. To me, it sounds like she is modifying her body to please her husband.

Most people would choose to be healthy over insanity. I'm from New Jersey too so I will let you know if she down my way.

Sharon

Wowza! *shakes my head*

Awful!!! :(

and has she thought about how hard it will be to lose once she "wins" this crazy quest? As others have said, she could well have a heart attack before she meets her "goal"

I hope she comes to her senses before it's too late.

That's the strangest thing I've ever heard. o_0

I had a friend who wanted to gain weight and consistently overate in order to achieve this goal. We stop talking due to other reasons so I don't know how she is doing. I didn't really understand it then. But she liked the feeling of carrying extra weight, enjoyed it when her pants were tighter than the day before and liked giving herself an excuse to eat to excess.

I think there is some sort of validation from what she is doing. There are TLC shows popping up every week on people with the same weight-ranges. She'll have something, i guess, when she is done. I think its a little crazy, but people do crazy things...

Ugh. I really don't like the way fox news went about presenting this story. They open with, "Meet Donna Simpson. She's going to cost you. A lot." Yeah, what this woman is doing is nuts. But seriously, was it neccessary for them to go the "fat people are the enemy" route?

All I can say is each to her own and yes DCF will proably step in at some point to take the daughter. Usually that take children away once the person can not longer care for themself or the child. I have seen this happen and it is very sad, especially on the kids. The kids we know do not even understand why their mom had to go to treatment to help with her weight and try and get things under control.

She's not RUNNING after anybody.

Sounds like her website gives a new meaning to food porn. I don't guess she's much different than the women who have unprotected sex for porn movies. Both are subjecting themselves to humiliation, disease, and death.

It is beyond sad. Especially for her baby.

This is disgusting and incredibly sad. I feel so bad for her daughter. You'd think she'd be more concerned about being around for her child than getting a to goal which may result in death well beforehand. :no:

I don't necessarily agree with her choices or the goals mentioned in the article, but I think it's her right to these things if she so chooses. Just as it's my right to eat what I choose, follow whatever weight loss plan I desire and generally live my life according to my own standards. Especially considering she's not living off the state (as far as the article described).
If people want to pay to watch her consume food, then so be it.

I don't get to apply labels or judgement to anybody's life but my own.

Everyone's different. Who knows why she wants to do this? If reaching her goal ends up killing her, I'll feel bitter sorrow for her children and family, but I won't hold any thoughts of "disgust" towards her directly. It's not my place, yo.

Live and let live. And if someone wants to kill themselves? Yeah they can do that too.

Heartbreaking, utterly heartbreaking.

I have been recently looking at what I eat, how most of it is junk and hurting my body, hurting me. (the reason I am turning things around)

I have seen people (kids) who hurt themselves, out of fear, control issues, hopelessness, etc. but this is a whole new level.

WOW - I feel so sorry for her, I really do. She obviously has some issues and perhaps likes all of the attention, too bad it's for the wrong reasons (in my humble opinion), I don't want to sit here and judge her but she needs help. Sad.

I know her name is Donna Simpson, but all i can think of is Homer Simpson and the episode where he wanted to gain weight to get disability to stay home all day LOL He had to call 9/11 and the operator said "your fingers are too fat to operate the keypad. To obtain a special dialling wand, mash the keypad with your sausage fingers" LOL sorry to laugh, but it popped into my head!

Yes it's horrifying beyond belief, but people smoke themselves to death, drink themselves to death, do drugs to death, why not eat themselves to death? There's a host of ways and means to get there. As for the food porn, I find it revolting, but again, women debase themselves on the internet doing any number of things. It's a free country.

I'd say child services should take the kid away ASAP tho, what a crazy unhealthy environment, she'll be turned into a slave having to wipe her mom's butt and bring in truckloads of food!

I read a different article (might have been in the NY Daily Mail or something like that) but it says her husbad is 150lbs...and everyone keeps talking about her daughter...she has a son too that I believe he is a teenager! Keep that family in your thoughts and prayers, they will eventually lose their mother to what I would call "suicide."

In that same article I was reading it says she's a model for BBW websites and has a consistent following, with some fans sending her baklava and cheesecakes to keep her fat. And of course she has a website were people pay to watch her eat (ummmm....BARF)!! My prayers are with her kids, they don't get to choose their parents. Hopefully they don't follow in their mothers footsteps.