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News: 600-lb woman wants to be world's fattest -- Is that a problem?

OK, show of hands: How many of you (even secretly) aspire to lose weight this year? I know my hand is high up in the air right now. Well, a woman from New Jersey is working toward the opposite goal. Donna Simpson, 42, aspires to become the fattest woman in the world by reaching 1,000 lbs in two years, reports the Daily Mail UK. According to the article, Simpson, who already weighs 600 pounds, says she loves being large and says she’s healthy despite the fact that she requires a scooter to move around. She says her husband loves her large size, too, and is supportive of her goal to consume up to 12,000 calories a day.

Undoubtedly, this is reported as one of those shocking weird-news stories meant to inspire head-shakes “tisk-tisks.” But is this a tale about a strange woman's "out there" behaviour or is it really a story about someone suffering an eating disorder not unlike anorexia? What do you think? Is eating too much food to transform your body and defy society’s image of thin beauty the same problem as restricting your diet in order to conform to it?

Posted by Jennifer Goldberg onTuesday, March 16th, 2010 - 10:25am

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If this is not a death wish, I don't what is? Her body will collapse long before she gets 1,000 pounds thats for sure.

Submitted by GeorgiaB on Fri, 2010-12-24 5:13am.

This is just another example of someone wallowing in their Id and looking for others to validate that indulgence....This is just sheer laziness and a need for attention. Of course she should not get it but this is a society that revels in its decadence and we will hear about this....woman....again. This is in no way a disorder but a lack of moral and emotional discipline on her part and enabling on her husbands. Question: how far are we to go before sanity once more prevails upon the majority?

Submitted by michelle on Wed, 2010-03-17 11:32pm.

This is a death wish, pure and simple :-(

Submitted by Valorosa on Wed, 2010-03-17 9:24pm.

Doesn't she want to live?
This is a certain death wish ...

Submitted by Wendy on Wed, 2010-03-17 9:22pm.

Yo wife so fat, that when she rolled around for joy, she got stuck!

Submitted by roflmao on Wed, 2010-03-17 9:07pm.

I wouldn’t it call it an eating disorder at all. To her, being skinny is abnormal and she can justify it just as much as we can say what she wants is wrong. Just because one chooses to be big doesn’t mean anything is wrong. She has accepted the fact that she wants to be big. It may not be the best choice for her health [but neither is being skinny] but as we all see it’s her choice to make not others. Every American has the right to the pursuit of happiness. If being 1,000 pounds makes her happy then let her be. It also makes her husband happy and no one is getting hurt. She feels just as strongly about gaining weight as I feel about losing weight. At the end of the day she will be able to look in the mirror and say “this is what I wanted”. She embraces her weight, her shape, her size, we shook take notes: It’s what makes us happy that counts.

Submitted by ghj on Wed, 2010-03-17 7:36pm.

Submitted by mandy on Wed, 2010-03-17 7:35pm.

I think this woman should aspire to lose 400 lbs instead of gaining 400 lbs. I have been trying for years to lose the spare tire around my waist. I have not succeeded but by golly I am not going to try to go the other way. Even though I am overweight by about 100 lbs I suffered a stroke at the age of 52 and until that point my doctor thought that I was pretty healthy even with the extra weight. Weight is nothing to take lightly (LOL) Please reconsider because while losing weight is not easy aspiring to gain gross amounts of weight is scary. This woman needs help.

Submitted by Fatty Patty on Wed, 2010-03-17 7:07pm.