Plus-Sized Women News

We had just read about  Sharon Mevsimler,  Britain's heaviest woman, who fed herself to death at 40 leaving behind a husband and 4 children.

To fight post-natal depression, she sought solace in food, junk food for precise, consuming more than 12,000 calories a day - 10,000 more than the recommended amount.
Her weight soon balloned to 285kg.

After she died, her specially strengthened hospital bed collapsed as she was being wheeled to the mortuary 2 Satudays ago.

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Then today, I came across Italy's full-figured woman as its latest beauty queen.  

Angela Scognamiglio, who weighs at 170kg, is the new Miss Chubby. (photo from Chinanews.com.cn)

Weighing 170kg, the title of Miss Chubby went to Angela Scognamiglio, 33-year-old from Naples, last Saturday night. She had beaten out 30 other contestants for the title.
As in all past 20 editions of the pageant, there is only one condition for entering: contestants have to weigh more than 100kg.

The contest was held in the Tuscany village of Forcoli, near the city of Pisa.
Contestants paraded before an audience of 2500 at a local hotel wearing evening gowns, or for those who cared to show more, swimwear for some. Some even dared a little striptease.

But the crucial moment in the contest was the weigh-in, stepping onto a giant red scale where everyone could see the result - with the roundest beauty clinching the title.
Instead of celebrating hourglass figure or stick-thin body frame, the beauty pageant sang praises for roundness and chubbiness.

And instead of jewelleries or endorsement deals, the winner got a huge cake that she could share with the rest.

The founder of the contest, Gianfranco Lazzereschi said the contest is a showcase for full figures. Why is it necessary to follow the dictates of what's beautiful?

He, with his way to deliver another kind of message about beauty.

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Yesterday, another news about big, big woman.

240-kg Woman Dies Five Months After Delivery

In this Feb 17, 2010 file picture Victoria Lacatus, 25, who weighed 528 pounds (240 kilograms), is lifted by fire fighters out of an ambulance in Bucharest, Romania, to a hospital where she gave birth by Caesarean section to a girl.

Relatives of Victoria Lacatus, a 25-year-old Romanian woman who weighed 240kg (528 pounds) when she gave birth to a baby girl more than five months ago, has died of a heart attack on Sunday after developing a high fever last week and breathing problems, media reported Monday.

She was hospitalized in her home town of Caracal in southern Romania before she was moved to the main regional hospital where she died.

Doctors from Craiova hospital in southern Romania said Lacatus' heart stopped.
Hospital manager Florin Petrescu said doctors tried to resuscitate Lacatus for 30 minutes, a task made difficult because of her extreme obesity.

Her sister Cristina Sosoiu told the daily Libertatea that after she gave birth by cesarean section to a 6.4 pounds (2.9 kilograms) baby girl on Feb. 18, Lacatus gained another 44 pounds (20 kilograms).
Doctors had told Lacatus to go on a diet but she apparently kept eating, the paper reported.

Nicolae Cernea, a doctor from the southern city of Craiova - where Lacatus was hospitalized for a month before delivery - said her case was unique in Romania.
Lacatus was transported from her village in southern Romania to Bucharest because the local hospital did not have any beds that could bear her weight.
While in hospital for the delivery, Lacatus was carefully monitored because she suffered from a thyroid problem and there was possibility of post-surgery complications because of her morbid obesity.

Florin Costandache, who helped perform the child-birth operation, said: “It was a real challenge because she needed four times the anesthetic a normal person needs.”

When Lacatus gave birth on Feb. 18, Dr. Daghni Rasasingham, of Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London said the case was rare, given the mother's weight and height of 5 feet and 3 inches (1.6 meters).
Rasasingham said she would be at risk of clots, diabetes, post-birth bleeding and infection.

Her daughter, Anisoara, currently weighs just a little over 9 pounds (4 kilograms), the paper said.
She lives with her maternal grandmother.

It is not clear why the baby does not live with her father, Costica Lacatus, who is slimmer, weighing just 70kg.

Extreme Habits That Lead To Death

Junk food addict Sharon Mevsimler, 40, needed an oxygen mask due to the strain her weight put on her heart and lungs.

Aged 6 and 14 ... Sharon was a normal-sized little girl and a slim and pretty teenager

Aged 18 and 28 ... enjoying sunshine on holiday in Cyprus but as a young mum she was putting on weight

Aged 32 ... by now Sharon is seriously obese. All Photos: Internet.

The 5 feet tall Sharon Mevsimler was slim with glossy hair and rosy cheeks on her wedding day.

She was just like any twenty-something when she got married to boyfriend Tyler but no thanks to the severe post-natal depression she suffered.
After giving birth to her 4 children, post-natal depression sets in and Mevsimler sought solace in food during her depressed moments.

She turned to comfort eating and it soon balloned her weight. She blamed her weight gain on comfort eating as her weight peaked at a massive 285kg.
The habit eventually took a toll on her health.
The Sun newspaper reported the 40-year old mother as the Britain's fattest woman, who spent the last 4 years lying in the hospital bed because she was too big to walk.

It was revealed earlier this month that Mrs Mevsimler's husband had to give up his job to look after his wife fulltime.

Mrs Mevsimler said in 2007 that she had "been left to die".
If she was anorexic, she would get proper help but no one has sympathy for obese people.

She was relying on an oxygen mask to help her to breathe because of the pressure put on her heart and lungs. She had repeatedly asked for a life saving band operation.
Mevsimler was upset to find out that her size and weight had prevented her from getting any life-saving operations.
Sources from National Health Service claimed they have not given up on Mevsimler, as she has been lined up for a £30,000 gastric by-pass operation.

The mother of 4 died last Saturday from heart attack in hospital. .
Doctors made a grave prediction then that she had only months to live.

Before the death, she reportedly asked family members to smuggle junk food into her hospital room.
She had buckets of chicken and fish-and-chips, despite being put on a strict diet by doctors.

Her hospital bed which is a specially strengthened hospital bed collapsed as she was being wheeled to the mortuary.

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A "size zero" Taiwanese woman died after falling into a coma after a slimming programme that went fatally wrong.

"Size zero" is often used to refer to extremely thin individuals, especially women.
The 34-year-old woman, surnamed Lin, was 1.66m tall.

According to China Times, she was unhappy with her weight of 60kg.
She underwent a slimming programme and started taking slimming pills about 4 years ago beside taking laxatives after every meal.

She later suffered from anorexia nervosa (lack of desire to eat) and once weighed only 24kg.
Her health deteriorated so much and she could not go to work.

Her mother said Lin had refused to listen to her advice to stop taking pills and complained of not feeling well at 2pm on Wednesday May 5, but refused to go to the hospital.
Then, the mother left home to run some errands and found the daughter dead when she returned home some two hours later.
She hoped her daughter's slimming case and death would raise the alarm to those who are concerned too much about their looks.

Lin, who had been discharged from hospital early this year, fell into a coma at home and died of multiple organ failure. She even took slimming pills when she was warded at the hospital.

The extremely thin size zero woman only weighed 31kg when she died on Wednesday 5th of May, 2010.