Fattest Woman in the World

After divorcing her husband three years ago, Pauline Potter from Sacramento became so fat, she won the Guiness World Records title of heaviest woman in the world, weighing in at 50 stone (700lb). But to her skinny husband Alex, it only made her more attractive and he has moved back in with his former partner to become her full-time carer.

The 47-year-old is now so big she can’t walk, dress herself or go to the toilet alone but her ex husband said she is still dynamite in bed. “Within the first day of being back together, we had sex six times in 24 hours” he said. 'Even though one of Pauline's legs weighs more than I do, we're able to position her body to make sex enjoyable for both of us.' He went on 'It's really dangerous for us to have sex because at any moment the bed could collapse and one of us could be seriously injured or even killed from the impact,' said the 46-year-old. Mrs Potter said “It helps that I did gymnastics until I was 12 so I’m very limber”.

The turning point was when she had to ask her overweight son to help her get dressed. It takes around an hour to shower and she can’t manage on her own, she needed him to lift the folds of fat from behind her and to wash underneath each one. 'My goal is to lose 200lb (14st 4lb) plus and have weight-loss surgery so I can be mobile again and not rely on anyone for help,' she said.

Mrs Potter receives $850 a month in benefits which isn't a lot and wonder where she gets the money from for those huge grocery bills.

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.