Fattest Woman in the World

Donna Simpson 42 from New Jersey wants to become the fattest woman in the world - she already weighs 43 stone but wants to nearly double that by reaching her goal weight of 1,000 lbs (71.4 stone). And the tragedy is that she insists she is healthy and is the parent of a small child. She needed a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter in 2007 during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

She can only walk a few steps before she has to sit down and uses a scooter to shop. She has a partner Philippe 49 who encourages her to eat more. They met on a plus-size dating site and says he is a fat-admirer but only weighs 150 lbs. To achieve her goal weight she will eat up to 12,000 calories a day which costs a lot of money, in fact she spends $750 a week on food so where does the money come from? She runs a website where men pay to watch her eat.

Donna's mother made huge meals for all her children and gave them lots of treats so by the time Donna was nine, she weighed 13 stone. When her mother died, her father remarried a woman who put Donna and her brothers on a strict diet. From the ages of 14 and 18, Donna started taking diet pills and slimmed down to 11 stone but found being thin didn't make her happy. She was miserable all the time because she couldn't stop thinking about food. When the weight came back "I felt like who I was meant to be" she said.

When she was 19 she met her husband who was a chef at a steak restaurant. He came home at 2am with left-overs and they would stay up and eat huge piles of steak, mashed potatoes and gravy. When she was 27 she fell pregnant with her eldest son Devin and her marriage ended and by the age of 31, she weighed 43 stone. She lost 5 stone in six months and was due to have a gastric band operation but her close friend died during a similar operation and she called it off.

Then Donna discovered a website for obese women, she joined up and once she admitted her real size, she was flooded with emails from men - they wanted her to get fatter and sent her protein shakes through the post to help her along.

So Donna continues on her journey to become the fattest woman in the world and she has a huge incentive - men pay to watch her eat.