World’s Largest Woman: The Worst Goal of All Time

March 16, 2010 5:00 pm     Posted in Buzz  Jessica- Delaware g+ page

With all the fuss lately surrounding healthy body images and the perfect abs, it seems a bit surprising that Donna Simpson, a 42 year old New Jersey woman has actually made it her goal t be the world’s fattest woman. She’s even said it would be “a fantasy” to reach 1,000 pounds!


By Jessica

No. A fantasy is stealing Brad Pitt away from Angelina for a night of steamy hot sex. A fantasy is moving to a deserted island with half-naked men fanning you with palm leaves. A fantasy should NOT be holding the world record for World’s Largest Woman, because that translates to poor health and a dramatically shorter life.

There are so many things wrong with this situation. Here are 4:

1. She’s got a daughter
While Simpson actually tries to wolf down enough food to gain another 350 lbs. onto her already obese frame, her three-year-old daughter is still in the picture. Shouldn’t she be less concerned with her goal weight and more concerned with living long enough to see her daughter graduate high school? And the $750 a week eating habit is money that would be better spent on toys, clothes, and outings with her daughter. She might be in the running for a Guinness World Record, but it certainly won’t be for World’s Best Mom.

2. 12,000 calories per day
2,000 calories per day is the way to a naturally healthy weight for most women, and women who want or need to gain weight are usually told to do so in a healthy way, by upping protein intake and what not. 12,000 calories is BEYOND excessive, and would push anyone’s digestive tract into overload. Plus, she’s doing so by eating McDonald’s! She’s literally eating herself to death, exponentially increasing her risk for diabetes, colon cancer, and heart disease.

3. Exhibitionism
In order to pay her weekly food bill that approaches a grand, as mentioned above, Simpson has resorted to the internet where people pay to watch her stuff her face with 70 (seventy!!!!!!) pieces of sushi, among other things. She says, “It makes people happy.” I say, “who are these freaks that would pay to watch someone eat?!”

4. She’s being encouraged
Her boyfriend (who reportedly weighs in at a whopping 150), actually ENCOURAGES her to do this, and said he’d love it if she was bigger. People who love us are supposed to want the best for us, which means being healthy. Cheering someone that you supposedly love on to an early death is not my idea of a healthy relationship!

I’m in no way knocking people who are overweight or obese. I realize that overweight people might be healthy, just as thin people can be unhealthy. But someone who is trying to make herself famous for harming her body doesn’t deserve the spotlight, as far as I’m concerned!

18 Comments on "World’s Largest Woman: The Worst Goal of All Time"

  1. Roberto says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20101:12 pm 

    I find this post offensive…

    LOOL no I am just kidding, but on the real, she is really fat

  2. dana says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20101:20 pm 

    oh good lord

  3. Mal says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20101:27 pm 

    If you don't think she deserves the spotlight, isn't it a little ironic to write an article on her?

  4. Charlotte says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20102:19 pm 

    Take the kid away and let her eat herself to death. It's cold but she's not contributing anything to society, and if her life's goal is to weigh 1000 lbs, I doubt she ever will.

    Also the thing with her boyfriend is a (sort of) common thing. Watch the documentary "Fat Girls and Feeders" that was done by BBC – creepy as hell men who encouraged their women to get so fat they were immobile so they could literally never leave them. It's sick.

  5. Kenz says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20102:51 pm 

    While she can do whatever she wants, I do believe her daughter should be taken away from her. At the extent she's going, she's pretty much committing suicide, and her child doesn't need to be exposed to watching her mother slowly die.

  6. barbara says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20105:56 pm 

    i agree she just wants the attention..if she loved her child she would want to stick around for a while

  7. barbara says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20105:59 pm 

    i bet the state gives her a check to sit at home and eat.they r encouraging it if they do pay her..I'm sure she has no job other then the money she makes online..why would u want to pay to watch a fat lady eat,that's weird in itself

  8. barbara says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20106:12 pm 

    i typed in her name in the google toolbar this is what pops up lol

    Home Hungry?

    For the first time in human history, more than one billion people are undernourished worldwide. This is about 100 million more than last year and around one sixth of all humanity. Read more… fao.org (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

    type in the google toolbar donnasimpson.com

  9. syd says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20106:42 pm 

    How selfish. There are starving people all over the world who could use that money, hell, there are middle class college students that would cut off a toe or two to have an extra 750 dollars a YEAR (or ever), let alone a WEEK. Her daughter could put that money to a trust fund, or funds for a private school or college. She could save it for herself and her husband to retire early or buy a nice car or install a swimming pool. She could give it to charity. Man, she needs to give it to ME. She obviously doesn't appreciate how incredibly privileged she is for THIS assery to be her goal, so all that she's taking for granted needs to go to someone who'd appreciate it.

    And her poor daughter. Not only is she definitely going to lose her mother at way too young of an age, but she's never going to have a good idea of body image or health.

  10. brianna says:
    Tue, 16th Mar 20108:44 pm 

    someone trying to be famous for harming her body doesn't deserve the spotlight…

    but do we not have a similar situation with other famous people, who are in the spotlight for being thin and starving their bodies??? our society has an obsession with body size.

  11. thebitchlorette says:
    Wed, 17th Mar 201010:01 am 

    You know she'll get her goal weight, become wildly famous, get wheeled out on stage for a heartfelt sit down with Tyra, go on Celebrity Fit Club, pen a best selling memoir, marry Brad Pitt anyway, and live happily ever after.

    It's not the weirdest thing I've encountered lately. Case and point: http://tinyurl.com/vaginaquake

    Just sayin'

  12. syd says:
    Wed, 17th Mar 20104:58 pm 

    @Brianna- because they aren't famous SIMPLY for being skinny (or in some cases, allegedly starving themselves), they're generally famous for actually doing something that requires getting off their asses for five seconds or more. She's not doing anything BUT eating. Was she a huge woman who happened to be, say, an actress or a singer, that would be different.

    Also, it doesn't cost 750 dollars a week, of food possibly stolen out of your own child's mouth, to be thin.

  13. SL says:
    Thu, 18th Mar 20108:31 am 

    also, 150 lb is not heavy for an average man… the average male weight is between 140 – 182 lb….

  14. D, says:
    Thu, 18th Mar 20109:00 am 

    I have to laugh at all those comments calling her selfish for choosing to spend money that she has earned on herself. How many of you would give most of your income away to charity, because clearly, it is selfish to do whatever makes you happy?

    Syd: I've seen the pictures. Her daughter looks happy and well-nourished…In the article she says she'd weigh more if she didn't have to spend time running after her kid, she clearly cares about her and I highly doubt she's eating her child's food.

    She is still able to take care of her little girl, so why, exactly, should she be taken away? Because her mother may die? Everyone dies. And you can bet most parents have unhealthy habits that may hasten their deaths, so what makes this mother any different?

  15. jo says:
    Thu, 18th Mar 20107:14 pm 

    she was on the tyra banks show a while ago.

    her husband is a tall, handsome black man who really seemed to love her in an odd way.

  16. Nori says:
    Tue, 13th Apr 201010:27 pm 

    Let people do what they want, it is not your money they spend on food nor your health they are going to waste. You are not god to decide what people should do with their lives.

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