>>82025 That is actually a really interesting question, namely, why with women generally getting much fatter today than in the 80s and 90s, and with social media / the internet making it so much easier to identify women like that (not to mention their ability to monetize their size, which did not exist back then) do we not see more of these extreme (ca. 1000 lb) women. Maybe WLS has gotten so much easier since then? Or maybe they exaggerated their weights? I mean, from the few pics we have, I wouldn't say they look 25% bigger than the few 800-lb fatties we get to see. Back in the day, people were less likely to challenge those super-high numbers, and I am not sure how much proof we have that Carol and Rosalie ACTUALLY weighed as much as they claimed.

Weight isn't everything. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty was 4'7½" and the fattest person ever recorded by FAR.

>>82029 Carol's weight was not exaggerated unless someone is impersonating her daughter in Wikipedia discussions, as it's stated to have been used as evidence in a lawsuit by a nurse who was crushed trying to move her greedy blubber.

>>82029 I think in both Carol and Rosalie's cases the pictures we have of them are not of them at their peak weight. See how Rosalie is standing up in that picture for instance. >>82034 Good point yeah, though I'm not sure how much it weakens my argument here.

>>82041 There is this one picture of Carol where she looks significantly bigger but it's too low-quality to make out much.

>>82025 It's probably because there isn't as much interest in profiling super obese people anymore. Guinness World Records discontinued their fattest people categories and I think there's less interest in fatsploitation from media companies like TLC. They still exist, there was Marya Rosales, who only became famous because she was part of a court case. If you read places like nursing subreddits, you occasionally find stories about 900 or 1000 patients. >>82043 That's not Carol, that's a male.

>>82045 Certainly correct, the EMT forums have plenty of super-obese horror stories. They're still out there (maybe more than ever) despite the lack of media attention. Occasionally you'll see stories of people being cut out of buildings, healthcare providers/crematoriums spending vast sums on super-heavy-duty bariatric equipment etc. and other secondary order effects of top-notch obesity.

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>>82052 Do you have versions of the Carol images without upscaling? I don't like the smeared look.

>> 82045 >> 82408 You're right about the Guinness Book of World Records effect, but they didn't have Dr. Now or TLC wanting to do stories about the super-morbidly-obese back then either. Maybe Dr. Now couldn't help someone that big (I know there are max weights that can be operated on safely), but I cannot imagine that the execs at TLC would not be creaming their pants over getting a 1000 lb sister or My half-ton life TV show to exploit someone that huge, nor that the desire to get some fame for being so fat somehow died out at the turn of the millennium. Or that nobody that size has a partner who doesn't want to show off their prize sow, both for the acclaim and the $$$. So there's gotta be something going on here.

>>82069 I’m on the same page as you thinking perhaps their weights could have been slightly inflated (similar to how circus fat ladies said they weighed 700 lbs, but to us who now know what 700 lb women actually look like, can safely say they were closer to 500). VanillaHippo almost reached 1000 lbs when she was on my 600 lb life, and she was HUGE (and like 6’3”).

>>82045 >>82048 Essentially it comes down to this. The age of the daytime television freakshow is over and as a society we're much more health conscious than we were even a decade ago. When most people go to the gym or try to be a clean girl, nobody really wants to hear about a massive tub of lard. Also genetics and predisposition towards edema is what makes someone actually super-heavy. When it comes to Carol Yaeger most of her weight was edema/water retention, now that more people appreciate that it makes her size less of a point of interest and more of a medical issue that people treat with a bit more courtesy and respect. Once people realised that they didn't "eat themselves" to that point, they're mainly a prisoner of out of control fluid retention they lose interest. I find it funny personally because Carol Yaeger and Rosalie don't actually look fat, just big. A lot of really heavy models are less attractive than shorter but fatter looking women like MissT or B*berry.

>>82069 Notably, Dr. Now did gastric bypass on Renee (Half Ton Mom) without any weight loss beforehand, and she died shortly later. Granted, she had accepted the risks, but I think this caused Dr. Now to change his approach with super large patients, especially since I think this was one of his first 900+ pound patients. Later, he operated on Mayra (Half Ton Killer), so i don't think he stopped taking these patients, it's just that TLC stopped starring this type of patient. I noticed the recent My 600 Lbs Life stars seem to be on the "smaller" side, and I suspect TLC wants people who are likely to succeed at Dr. Now's program. >>82074 Yeah but even with the fluid retention, they still weigh like 600 pounds or more.

>>82068 I'm sorry I don't. When I got them from here a few years ago, they were already upscaled.

Samantha aka VanillaHippo was around 950lbs prior to her emergency surgery. She would have been 1000lbs likely in the next 2-3 weeks due to her eating habits at the hospital (sneaking fast food). That's probably the best case of female obesity we have had. Now there are obviously small percentage of women in that size range we just don't know who they are.

>>82025 Fun fact: "Half-Ton Killer" Mayra Rosales was from McAllen, Texas, the fattest town in America in one survey I read.

Answer is pretty simple by the way, Ultraprocessed food was a relatively new thing to the world and a few people got hooked on the addiction to it really hard, but also food was cheap, so there was a rapid binge on it. Everyone else just did a more slow addiction and gained slower. Food is now more expensive and its not novel anymore either so you dont see the rapid, stuff themselves big, types except when they happen. You want to see this come back food prices would need to drop fast while the rest of the world being expensive, also add like 3 decades of sugar/calorie reduction back to the food.

>>82048 I'd like to read some of those stories

This is such a good topic, obviously the older cases of extreme obesity most likely didn't have scales as accurate to measure them so i could imagine the doctors would just estimate their weight by taking a look at them, and with not that many extremely morbidly obese people around they would exaggerate the number. I'd like to imagine there are multiple people over 1000 pounds who just keep their lives private, although it would be quick cash for them to make feederism porn but are too ashamed of themselves to show off. I have wondered about this for as long as i have been attracted to morbidly obese women, for me actually i think i got my fat fetish from watching my 600 pound life when i was like 12 (the shower scenes really ignited something within me), and gradually worked my way down to being attracted to women under 400 pounds as well, when i think typically it happens the other way around to most here, first attracted to chubby girls and then move your way up to chase the ultimate high. >>82171 Me too, it'd be so hot to hear about struggling to move impossibly fat patients, especially if they are young women. There are some stories on reddit too, here for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ems/comments/g8r4y3/how_big_was_your_biggest_patient/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1j19zsv/heaviest_patient_youve_cared_for/>>82171 >>82171

>>82177 Got DAMN

>>82177 Have to think that only a tiny, tiny percentage of USSBBW-sized women engage with the fetish/porn community. So if there are maybe a few hundred women visibly putting themselves out there, there must be tens of thousands just living quietly at home or in a facility staying hidden in shame. Untapped potential!

Found some crazy stuff in subreddits. A single hospital unit with a 650, 1200 and 1350lbs patient. And another post mentioning someone slightly over 1400lbs stuffing herself all the time. And these are just from two reddit posts... I guess in reality there must be way more of these supermorbidly obese people in hospitals or nursing homes than we think.

>>82177 Geez, those are some hot stories! Not sure why the 24 year old/800 pounder hit me the way it did, but that was such a turn on. I should have quit law school and become a nurse in the bariatric unit (mind you, that would have depressed me, seeing so many fatties in their wasting their god-given talents by losing weight...).

>>82198 Ok these ones got to be made up, or maybe the information is secondhand and unreliable, because there's no way there are this many 1300+ pound people out there. Assume these users think they're telling the truth, maybe they can't get an accurate measurement so they're just guessing like what they did with Carol Yager.

The real answer? It's because it's very, very difficult to get that fat. If you look at all fattest people in history, most of them had medical conditions exacerbated by issues like depression and family who enabled them. A lot of those medical conditions are treatable. They were probably treatable back then, but weren't widely known. Mental health issues are treated far more effectively these days. There's also a lot more options to lose weight. There's obviously surgical and medical routes, but there's support and your doctor will send you to a dietician and a physical therapist and whole chains of people who specialise in supporting fucked up, depressed people with medical conditions to lose weight effectively. Records aren't being broken because there's a limit to how fat you can get without dying, and if you get medical support to stay alive, you're put into these programs, get put on strict dietary control by the hospital, etc. They are out there, surely, but only very very private people could possibly get that fat without ending up getting help. Someone unwilling to go to a doctor or a hospital surely isn't going to be letting the press in. Even intentional death feedees (and there's very few who would actually let themselves end up immobile and ruin their health despite what they may like to tell their fans) struggle to gain that much weight because it's fucking hard to eat that much every day. I highly doubt anyone gets even close to the those weights without getting made to lose weight

>>82216 Don‘t think these stories are made up because why? These comments are not from a fetish board. Possible that some weights are guesses by newbie nurses who have never seen a patient heavier than 500lbs so when they see someone who’s say 800 they might think that they are over 1000lbs. But I do think that there are much more people over 1000lbs out there who just keep their life private. Not everyone is into feederism or wants to expose themselves on shows. That being said even shows like My 600lb life have apparently weight limits. I’ve read of people who got rejected by them for being too fat… whatever that’s supposed to mean.

I read those boards from time to time and some of the posts are obvious bullshit. Just because it's not a fetish channel doesn't mean fetishists (like me) don't hang out there, and though I don't post there I'm sure some of us do. One famous one was by an EMT. She went to go rescue a 1k lb repeat ER customer who was caught in a fire in her house. She said there were rivers of lard/tallow (whatever you call liquid human fat) running out of the front door down the driveway. Another had an immobile woman with a hole in her bed and a bucket beneath it that hosted an ecosystem of varmints who fed from it. I'll give them an A+ for imagination. But folks from other countries that actually regulate their food supply might not realize the possibilities here. The cheap hyperprocessed slop half this country eats 24/7 is like something out of WG fic. It's engineered to be highly addictive, highly caloric, and nutritionally null. This leads to weight gain possibilities that literally weren't possible a generation ago. As for records being broken, there was a popular national weatherman here who used to call out people across the country on their 100th birthday. In the 70s and 80s there would be two or three per day, until the 90s when it became dozens, and finally they killed the segment completely because so many people were living past 100. My point is that when Guinness was still clocking heaviest people, half-tonners were one in many, many millions. The fat epidemic (enabled by mass consumption of the frankenfood I was describing) was mostly after this, and so there was no single world authority keeping tabs. I think it's reasonable to assume an explosion of 250 lb people who are now 500 lbs would bring along a 500 pounder who's now 1,000+, due in part to the medical conditions you're talking about. >I highly doubt anyone gets even close to the those weights without getting made to lose weight I don't know how it works in Australia but here a hospital staff can't restrict food — even in a bariatric ward. As long as there's a phone available patients can get deliveries, and family and friends can be enablers as well. There was a documentary series a while back about a bariatric rehab in NYC with dozens of gigantic patients where delivery guys were going in and out all day and night. >>82238 >people who got rejected by them for being too fat… whatever that’s supposed to mean. It means Dr. Now won't operate on them because he knows they won't survive anesthesia, much less the recovery.

>>82177 >>82179 >>82198 Okay yeah, can we keep these coming?! 🥵

>>82177 >>82179 >>82198 Is this shit real or just Redditors one upping each other? I don't believe at all a unit would have two 100l0b+ people in a unit at once without it being on the news.

>>82367 We will never know I guess. They might have been made up by redditors or weights are exaggerated, cause afaik there’s no way to really weigh someone above 1100lbs or so. But as I said before I do still believe that there are a lot more people weighing 1000lbs or even more out there than we think. Not everyone turns to Dr Now or local news to show off and make some cash. I mean we have been for some time in an obesity epidemic and there are probably more feeders in the world rn than ever. Yet if you look at lists of the heaviest people you still find mostly the same on there as 20 years ago… well except for a few of Dr Now‘s patients that have been added.

>>82401 You are right: there have to be people out there over the 1000 lb mark. Just not sure how many there would be, as it is still hard to have the combination of genetics, lack of willpower/motivation, and network of family/friends to enable you to get that big. (I really question those ones that talk about people in their early 20s that get that big. I mean, being in the 700s at that early age is rare, and being about 40% more than that at that age just seems highly improbable.) And if there were very many, at least some of them would make it into the news, and we just don't see it.

We just need to expand the net, reach countries that haven't been reached before.

>>82177 I normally dont really care for the patients in that show but god damn Christine in season 2 was gorgeous. Imagine she'd make a killing modelling. She also seemed unusually sharp for being on that show so no wonder she succeeded in losing the weight. Genuine mystery on how you become 700 pounds at 22 even when surrounded by enablers. Also since you're like the first user I've seen from Finland here I have to mention that wtf is up with the fact that I don't see any fat girls on tinder when I'm there??? Are fat girls banned from using dating apps over there? Because they are clearly around and I even had the hottest observation of gluttony there. Is someone gatekeeping them? A bit unfortunate for me since fat blonde finns are my favourite genre of woman.

>>82589 Idk, at my college there are about 3 girls over estimated 300 pounds, I'm 20 so i haven't really gotten into the dating app bullshit yet, other than trying out Feabie a year ago just to find out the feed consists of only misandry and politics and it's locally all dudes and if there is the rare fat woman, she's over 30. I feel like Finland is more judgemental towards fat women in general than other western countries, so my guess is that most fat girls here are quite insecure about their weight, and yeah i think i remember reading some of your posts from a little while back actually. For my experiences of very fat girls here, one time when i was in a city of about 30k people, i saw this maybe 22-26yo with a pretty face, definetly over 400 pounds with a massive gut almost hanging to her knees, clearly visible through her leggings, she was waddling along a roadside and i saw how she had to stop a few times, lean against a lamppost just to catch her breath, it was wild. As for the girls at college, there was one who's about 5 foot 11, huge tits, blonde, kind of built like Thixxmomma, but taller and less gut, haven't seen her in months though. Then there is one who seems to be quite shy, dressed in hoodies and leggings all the time, a very fat face, about 5 foot 6, definetly over 350, evenly packed all over. And then there is one redhead who seems quite social, maybe 320ish at 5 foot 4, seems very confident, sporting skimpy outfits, tank tops, shorts etc when the weather allows. I haven't really talked to any though. So tldr fat girls do exist here too, although very rare, and usually insecure. The insecure ones probably don't leave their home unless they absolutely have to, to go to school or whatever.

I keep praying that one day a carol yager belly pic emerges its like the holy grail

>>82179 Thats thw fakest shit ive ever heard

>>82615 I might have very well have written to you before here and just forgotten. Well doesn't sound like you're missing out on anything when it comes to dating apps. Absolutely great story on that girl, hope you see her again which isn't exactly unlike in a smaller city assuming she's a local. In general I can't recommend enough to join student activities and maybe you'll see some of the ones you mentioned again:) I guess a lot of the big girls are hidden in random small towns etc. as well, one of the hottest things I've seen was two young massive sisters in bikinis devouring extreme amounts of food at a Närpes beach restaurant. Sounds like some stupid fiction story written by a 13 year old but I really long to go there on a nice summer day to see if I see them again.