While other women are busting their butts trying to get thin, there is a woman in New Jersey trying to do just the opposite in reaching new levels of obesity. It's been reported that Donna Simpson is trying to eat her way to a Guinness world record for being the heaviest woman alive, but a recent New York Post article quotes her as saying she doesn't have realistic expectations of reaching that goal. Nevertheless, she's consuming enormous amounts of food in order to gain weight.
I think my favorite part of this whole article is the statement that "Guinness denies it’s encouraging Simpson and other freaks, only chronicling what they’d be doing naturally". I don't know if the "freaks" part is Guinness's word or the NY Post's word. It is fun to joke about all this but really it's more sad than anything. Donna has a daughter that's three and likely mom won't live to see her daughter graduate high school. That doesn't seem to bother Donna at all. She gladly consumes about 12,000 calories a day! I don't think there's a way I could eat that much in one day if I tried, much less every day.
Donna's boyfriend seems to be encouraging this endeavor of hers. He wouldn't be the first guy to have a fat fetish, but there has to be a limit somewhere. On the website I referenced above there is a link to a photo of Donna with only her underwear and bra on. She doesn't seem to mind the fact people are gawking at her enormous belly that cascades down to her thigh region and is dangerously close to reaching her knees.
It's one thing to decide that you aren't going to buy into the whole super model thin-trend, but another thing when you purposely try to gain an unhealthy amount of weight. She obviously has some sort of addiction or deeper issue that needs to be addressed. I'm no psychologist so I can't speak from expertise on this, but just reading about this makes me think this woman needs help. Those around her are only enabling her either by directly supporting her or indirectly by giving her publicity and fame from all this. I only hope that she doesn't actually make the world record or end up encouraging others to try to meet this ridiculous goal.
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This is a painful reminder of the overwhelming number of people that, well, are just plain ignorant in this country. The biggest indicator of it all is that she doesn't care if she dies while feebly attempting to raise a child. And what kind of boyfriend is that? He reminds me of the "boyfriend" that had the "girlfriend" that went to the bathroom at his house one day, and never left. She sat on the toilet for 3 years, until she died. This couple is clearly ill, and the child should be taken away immediately, while it can still be saved.
What is going to happen if she achieves her goal? Then what? I don't care if she wants to kill herself this way. It's just everyone else is going to end up paying for it.
Wow. This is just sad. What kind of a mother could she possibly be?
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