amazing what the public finds entertaining...

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htimpaired
htimpaired Posts: 1,404 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/07/07/700-pound-woman-makes-a-career-out-of-eating-a-lot/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl8|sec1_lnk3|76481

I read this this AM and was appalled. I don't want to judge, becauseI understand everyone has the right to screw themselves up if they want...but it still baffles my mind...
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  • ItsAsha
    ItsAsha Posts: 78
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    wow.....I have no words
  • bouldert
    bouldert Posts: 225 Member
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    thats just crazy ,why would anyone want to achieve that goal .and then implicate her daughter to do it ,then she will feel bad when her mom has alot of heatlh issues and its an excuse to be lazy and mooch
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
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    If it's the woman I'm thinking of, she got a lot of press when she first announced her goal to be the world's heaviest woman. IMO, she has some serious mental health issues.
  • SpaceMarkus
    SpaceMarkus Posts: 651
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    All about the money. Look at what people like the *kitten* crew do for fame and fortune.
  • giammarcor
    giammarcor Posts: 217 Member
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    Wow, I've always been a believer that it's what's inside the person that matters most, not what's outside. But, really, this woman is less attractive inside than out. To think, there are people that would actually pay to see a picture of her sitting on someone??? Ugh, what a world.
  • trainguy917
    trainguy917 Posts: 366 Member
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    Wonder how she can get health insurance. Or is that on the taxpayer's dime?
  • LotsOtots5
    LotsOtots5 Posts: 174
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    That's terrible. What about when she kicks the bucket and leaves her poor daughter without a mother :(
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,319 Member
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    Speechless....
  • Barneystinson
    Barneystinson Posts: 1,357 Member
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    Yes, some people are highly turned on by the extremely obese. Fat admirers and BBWs. Google it, uh, if you dare.

    I think the internet must have desensitized me so much I don't even give a crap anymore.

    Edit: and not to be a completely insensitive jerk, but I have a feeling she's probably setting herself up for the Darwin awards (i.e. death by stupidity) more than the Guinness Book of World Records.
  • Enchantica
    Enchantica Posts: 117
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    it's a mad mad mad mad world we live in!
  • Beebs33
    Beebs33 Posts: 262
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    Holy cow!
  • Kathy_Noring
    Kathy_Noring Posts: 143 Member
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    Ugh. I try to keep an open mind always, I really do. But ugh. And like a PP said: To implicate her daughter in this? It baffles the mind.
  • reegordon
    reegordon Posts: 97 Member
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    If she want's to kill herself fine but she shouldn't involve her daughter in this. I wonder how her son feels about it.
  • 2bFitNTrim
    2bFitNTrim Posts: 1,209 Member
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    I doubt that people are really entertained by this. Rather, I believe most of us just cannot believe how/why someone would want to do something like this. It's like people who can't resist looking at an accident scene as they drive by.....they don't' want to see blood and gore, but yet, they kinda do. Personally, I think she is incredibly selfish in involving her little daughter like that, and not only that, she may not live to see the child grow up. Sad really.
  • BigBoneSista
    BigBoneSista Posts: 2,389 Member
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    I don't care about her...its her daughter I'm worried about. What is this going to do to her mentally as she gets older, living perhaps without a mother being put in a position to actively participate in a act that can lead to her own mother's death? (yep a run on sentence)
  • kfitz10103
    kfitz10103 Posts: 354
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    So I think that is terrible. I can't imagine being proud of being so out of control. Some people joke about their weight as a coping mechanism, but she is actually TRYING to gain weight? She needs counseling.
  • anthony438
    anthony438 Posts: 578 Member
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    I just... I... but... ummmm.....

    What do you even say to that? :huh:
  • bakersduzin
    bakersduzin Posts: 60 Member
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    It's just hard for me to understand why someone would willingly do that to themself...even with money involved.
  • Barneystinson
    Barneystinson Posts: 1,357 Member
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    I doubt that people are really entertained by this. Rather, I believe most of us just cannot believe how/why someone would want to do something like this. It's like people who can't resist looking at an accident scene as they drive by.....they don't' want to see blood and gore, but yet, they kinda do. Personally, I think she is incredibly selfish in involving her little daughter like that, and not only that, she may not live to see the child grow up. Sad really.

    It's actually a pretty common form of pornography nowadays. So yes, it is actually entertainment, and yes, there are a lot of gents (and women) out there who subscribe to it for fetish value.

    The rest of us probably just want to see it for absolute trainwreck value.
  • stefraab
    stefraab Posts: 402 Member
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    I don't care about her...its her daughter I'm worried about. What is this going to do to her mentally as she gets older, living perhaps without a mother being put in a position to actively participate in a act that can lead to her own mother's death? (yep a run on sentence)

    This... that poor kid. :(
    As far as I'm concerned that's like a meth-addict who gets their kids to get their drugs ready for them.
    Or an alcoholic who sends their kids to the liquor store.

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