World's heaviest woman turned record slimmer dies

[MaNuMaNiAc]

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/12/01/obit.bradford.ap/index.html


AUBURNDALE, Florida (AP) -- Rosalie Bradford, who held records for being the world's heaviest woman and for losing the most weight, has died. She was 63.

Bradford weighed 1,050 pounds http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/dizzy.gif in January 1987, according to the 1994 Guinness Book of Records. She lost 736 pounds to weigh 314 pounds in September 1992, according to the record book.

She died Wednesday at a hospital in Lakeland, about 10 miles from her Auburndale home in central Florida.

Publicist Stephen Nortier said Bradford weighed around 400 pounds just before dying. He said the cause of death won't be known until a medical examiner's report, but Bradford had spent the last year bedridden with complications from having her lymph nodes severed years ago.

At her largest, Bradford was 8 feet wide and took 90 minutes to bathe.

She credited Richard Simmons, the flamboyant fitness guru, with helping her lose weight. The two began corresponding after a friend of Bradford's wrote Simmons when she tried to commit suicide.

Bradford blamed her lifelong battle with obesity on abandonment, which bred a food addiction. Her Web site claims her peak weight was more than 1,200 pounds.

"I was just like an addict -- lie, cheat, steal, whatever to get my drug of choice. And my drug of choice was food," Bradford said in a 1999 interview with The Ledger of Lakeland.

that was one mammoth of a woman http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smiembarassed.gif

[atxrocker]

this gives me hope that i will live longer than 63.

[Fillmoe]

how does someone that weighs 1050 lbs even attempt to lose weight? i know the bitch ain't hitting the treadmill....... she must have gotten some sort of surgery..... possibly gastric bypass

[PM5K]

More cushion for the pushin...

[MaNuMaNiAc]

i read and saw tv about this...she lost her first 100-150 lbs on just clapping her hands

true story
well consider the amount of energy expended trying to raise what were probably 100 pounds worth of arms

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Zombie must be heartbroken at the loss of his wife.

[missmyzte]

That's really sad, I saw a program on her on Discovery Health.

[Douche]

That's really sad.


Even sadder is that anyone would ever let themselves weigh over a 1000 lbs. There's alot to be said for some self-fucking control.

[midgetonadonkey]

how does someone that weighs 1050 lbs even attempt to lose weight? i know the bitch ain't hitting the treadmill....... she must have gotten some sort of surgery..... possibly gastric bypass

I saw that faggot Richard Simmons try to help a really fat bitch like this lose weight and he first had her start clapping her hands to music, which raised her heart rate because the bitch was so fat. After a few weeks of that she was able to do arm exercises and then she eventually started doing regular exercises. I forgot where I saw this shit but it makes sense.

[Jekka]

Even sadder is that anyone would ever let themselves weigh over a 1000 lbs. There's alot to be said for some self-fucking control.
No, the really sad thing is that once you get past a certain weight you can't even leave the house anymore - at that point, it's not just your self control but the asshole(s) BRINGING you 15,000+ calories a day.

[SpursWoman]

but the asshole(s) BRINGING you 15,000+ calories a day.


No shit ... we've seen several shows on people in this condition, and Chris once told me if I ever got so big I couldn't move, the hell if he's bringing me any more food.

That's sad. :(

[Bob Lanier]

Health kills.

Don't ever change, T Park.

[Extra Stout]

Fortunately, operating a ferris wheel does burn at least some calories.

[ALVAREZ6]

8 feet wide????


She can't fit through doors. Pick a room and spend the rest of your life in it.

[1Parker1]

Health kills.

Don't ever change, T Park.



Fortunately, operating a ferris wheel does burn at least some calories.

WTF is wrong with people on this forum? I really hope they're not this rude in real life....

[v2freak]

Wow, she earned my respect without a doubt

[Ronaldo McDonald]

Jeez, her genetic make up was probably more whale than it is human

[Chris Childs]

i wonder how in the world could she wash up? If she didnt, she must of been one smelly fat *****

[thepeopleslawyer]

This is disturbing, disguisting and tragic all at the same time.

[ShoogarBear]

That's sad. :(That he wouldn't bring you any more food?

[Please_dont_ban_me]

how does someone that weighs 1050 lbs even attempt to lose weight? i know the bitch ain't hitting the treadmill....... she must have gotten some sort of surgery..... possibly gastric bypass

You have to start small.

+ Roll in bed, side to side.
+ Cut down twinkies from 70 a day to 65. Then 60. Before you know you're only eating 30 twinkies a day.
+ Use a smaller spoon.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I lived next to a guy a few years back that weighed about seven bills.

He had a heart attack in his house and they had to take the front door off its hinges to get him through it and to the ambulance.

He was one big mofo. A nice guy, but huge. I once watched him eat a 15 piece bucket of chicken, and a quart of potato salad, follow it with an entire chocolate cake and he washed it down with a gallon of milk.

That was officially the last time he got an invite to one of my birthday parties...that's all I can say about that. :madrun

[50 cent]

You have to start small.

+ Cut down twinkies from 70 a day to 65. Then 60. Before you know you're only eating 30 twinkies a day.

:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[703 Spurz]

WTF is wrong with people on this forum? I really hope they're not this rude in real life....

C'mon now it's funny. Fat fucks are funny. Get some humor in your diet

[nkdlunch]

Someone phone Stern, we got enough leather for the new balls until 2025

[ALVAREZ6]

Someone phone Stern, we got enough leather for the new balls until 2025
They're switching back to the old balls.






And that sounds weird.