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Old 09-06-2011, 12:02 PM
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World's Heaviest Living Woman



It's the small things – like driving a car, dancing, getting dressed in the morning and checking the mail – that Pauline Potter thinks about on afternoons when she stays in bed and listens to the world just beyond the walls of her bedroom in Sacramento, Calif.

"Everything people take for granted – those are the things I dream of," she tells PEOPLE. "I'm not living. I want more."

But getting more out of life will require Potter, who holds the Guinness World Record for heaviest living woman, to weigh less.

Potter weighed 643 lbs. as of February 2011, which qualified her to be included in Guinness World Records list for 2012, although she thinks she weighs closer to 700 lbs. today. (According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest woman ever is Rosalie Bradford, who registered a peak weight of 1,200 lbs. in January 1987.)

She realized the title is "a little degrading," but Potter, 48, is sharing her story because she's desperate. When the 2012 edition of the records book is released this month on Sept. 15, she's hoping somebody will read about her and offer to help her become healthy.

Maybe a doctor or a nutritionist will reach out, she says of her hope, and she's even open to talking to other people who need help, too.

"I don't like people to think bad of me, but I'm willing to risk that to get the help," she says of her weight-loss aspirations. "I have a lot of love to give, and I want to be able to help others, but I need a little help right now."


Full story - http://www.people.com/people/article...ss-fullcontent
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Old 09-06-2011, 01:44 PM
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Where's Murderdoll?! Threads about fat people just aren't the same anymore :(
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Old 09-06-2011, 02:32 PM
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Her body looks like it's trying to eat her head.
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Old 09-06-2011, 03:57 PM
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Where's Murderdoll?! Threads about fat people just aren't the same anymore :(
I know. I wanted to make a thread about that girl who tweeted Demi Lovato that her arms were getting chubby, but didn't see the point.
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Old 09-06-2011, 11:00 PM
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I pity that fuckin' couch that she is sitting on.
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Old 09-07-2011, 06:40 PM
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Good on her for wanting to make a lifestyle/diet change. Hopefully she'll get the help she needs. All the treatment/consultations she needs ain't cheap.
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