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The world's fattest mother: 'My four-year-old is my feeder'

Wednesday, July 6, 2011
The world's fattest mother: 'My four-year-old is my feeder'
Donna Simpson holds the Guinness World Records title as the fattest woman to give birth, but surprisingly, she is now working towards a new goal to put on even more weight.

The 44-year-old from New Jersey broke her first Guinness World Record after she gave birth to a daughter, following a high-risk caesarean birth that required 30 medics, while weighing 241kg, the UK's Daily Mail reported.

Now, as her daughter turns four, Donna has gained a further 76.2kg and has set her goal weight to 457kg to obtain the title of the world's most obese woman.

But she isn't doing it alone. She is using the help of her four-year-old daughter Jacqueline as her feeder, after separating from long-time partner and feeder Philippe Gouamba.

The mother-of-two, who currently weighs 317kg, eats more than 63,000 kilojoules a day to sustain her weight gain and uses the help of her daughter who both buys and prepares food for her.

"She helps me cook and comes shopping. I use a scooter to get around the store and she runs ahead to get my favourite foods," she said.

"Anyone who says I'm setting a bad example should shut their mouth — they don't know how much I love her."

While Donna has a high-kilojoule diet that has resulted in high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes, she says Jacqueline has a healthy diet.

"She loves salad and plays sports," she said.

"I've taught her to accept all sizes. If she wasn't around to feed me, I'd have given up on my supersize dream."

Despite this, Donna said she is looking for a full-time feeder to give her four-year-old a break but she does have some requirements.

"He must be handsome, slim, and at least 10 years younger than me," she said.

And how does Donna afford her 63,000 kilojoules-a-day diet and her weekly $751 shopping bill?

The profits from her website, which was set up for "fat admirers" who pay to look at photographs of her eating, make her $90,143 a year.

Donna, who has always been plus size, did decide to lose some weight after her first pregnancy and the fail of her marriage. At the time she weighed 273kg and lost 31kg in six months. She then decided to have gastric band surgery, but just before she was scheduled for an operation, a friend of hers died during a similar procedure.

"That was a sign for me," she said. "I decided it just wasn't worth it. I like being the way I am."

She then found a website that celebrated obese people and once signing up she was flooded with emails from men who showered her with gifts and praised her weight.

"I love eating and people love watching me eat," she said. "It makes people happy, and I'm not harming anyone."

Your say: How do you feel about Donna using her daughter as her feeder? Share your thoughts below.




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This woman should be charged with child abuse. How could anyone use a 4 year old as a carer. there is so much wrong with this where are the child protection agencies to take care of this young child.
ok then you selfish woman what happens to your beautiful when you drop dead of a heart attack, and she helped feed you, how stupid, she will have to live with that for the rest of her life and without a mother,. i am a size 26 person and i try my hardest everyday to lose weight, and i am succeeding, i read your article and now i am so angry, your daughter would be better off living in someone elses home who is going to take care of her and not there looking after you at the age of four, she is your daughter not your CARER, oooo i am so mad you are thinking of only you, and if you want to do this then dont include her, you are one selfish woman and you know what it is easier for you now cos you are lazy to just eat yourself stupid instead of trying to lose weight and you can tell me to shut my mouth all you want i am only one of many many people who will think the same thing of you, WAKE UP TO YOURSELF
I just think that SOMEONE should take a little more interest in your child rather than you. How could you USE her to be your slave? She's 4 for goodness sake, she should be out playing with her friends not serving you? What sort of future does she have as it wlll OBVIOUSLY be without you? You can't cheat death that long in your state? What will she think when she's getting married without a mum there and a nana for her children? You have no idea what you'll be missing out on? Wake up!!! Think of her instead of yourself? Get some phsychological help before it's too late? You obviously have a VERY LOW self esteem. Do it for your child's sake so she doesn't end up in some foster home? If you knew what my daughter-in-law went through being in foster homes you'd tape up your mouth today!
This creature should be locked up permanently which won't be for long because she most certainly will be dead before this decade ends.
I am so disgusted by this selfish woman and her attempts to be the "world's most obese woman" that I just had to comment. What a wonderful example she is setting for her child - NOT. If she's making so much money, and truly loves her daughter, why not spend some of it on a personal nutritionist and trainer and try and get healthy? And she wants to find a "handsome slim man 10 years younger"? What a hypocrite. Good luck with that.
I just chucked up all over my keyboard **shudders** the way you look is enough for me to chuck, but your arrogance is what really makes me sick. it is not 'ok' to be obese. having puppy fat or a little around the thighs is fine, but my god! its gross and not healthy. for anyone wanting to lose weight, the main reason behind weight gain is NUTRITION. swap the burgers and chips for tuna & salad. swap cake for veggies and chicken. eat 6 SMALL meals a day. eat more protein, eat carbohydrates during the day not at dinner. do 5 - 7 hours of exercise a week, vigorous exercise. cardio, weight lifting. get 8 hours sleep every night. that's what i do, so i can't see why no one else can. looking like this is inexcusable and lazy. should be illegal...
Can someone please tell me why this women deserves to be called a mother.... She should be classed as a slave-driver more like it.
omg. what planet is this dumb self-centered women is from. she is so ignorant about her 4 year old daughter's young life. She think she's entitled 2 have someone else feed her. where in the world is child protection for that child, she needs to be removed from that women. I would'nt call her a mother she got no idea. she is selfish and greedy.
This is the most disgusting thing i have ever seen if she wants to get big thats fine, but the damage she is doing long term to her daughter is disgusting and describing her daughter as her feeder be realistic.... This women needs a lot of counciling and a big wake up call she needs to stop focusing on herself and become a proper mum and start worring about her daughter i feel so sorry for this little girl.
Apart from the fact that this woman is depriving her daughter of her proper and normal childhood but she will also be depriving her of a mother altogether when she dies which is in all probability what will happen. Also, has she not thought about the mental state of her daughter when she does die and the fact that the daughter may actually blame herself for "killing" her mother? By constantly feeding the mother (even though she probably doesn't want to and thinks she is showing her love by doing so) she will have indirectly contributed towards her mother's demise. Hopefully the daughter will get some help and not end up being permanently mentally scarred and possibly not have a healthy relationship towards food. The mother needs to "wake up" and think about others instead of just being a lazy, greedy, selfish person.

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