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LAKELAND, Fla., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Rosalie Bradford, once listed by Guinness as the world's heaviest woman, died in a Lakeland, Fla., hospital from complications of obesity at age 63.
Bradford, 63, of Auburndale, Fla., weight 1,050 pounds in January 1987, according to the 1994 edition of the Guinness Book of Records. Guinness also listed her as having lost more weight than any other woman -- 736 pounds -- weighing 314 pounds in September 1992.
What I wonder about stories like hers is why, if she was able to lose all the weight she did, she did not go ahead and lose a couple of hundred more pounds. I dunno . . . maybe she was still in the process of losing. But it does remind me of something I read once about a man who had once weighed 700-800 pounds, something like that, who had gotten down to something like the high 300's, whose plan was to get down to 300 and then have liposuction. Left me wondering why he wouldn't just lose the last 100-150 pounds the same way he had lost the first 500.
Its always said when people die. I wonder how she lost that 700 pounds though.
"On her Web site, rosaliebradford.com, Bradford blamed her battle with obesity on her abandonment by her mother, which led to an addiction to food. The Web site claims her peak weight exceeded 1,200 pounds, the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger said."
This sentence in bold above is the saddest part. Not that she was abandoned by her mother, but that she used that as an excuse for her obesity. Another reason why I think obesity should also be classified as a mental health issue as well.
I cant find the one that actually had her talking...
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