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Commoners believe that the larger the woman, the larger the baby will be. And doctors say that excess weight interferes not only with giving birth, even conceiving. The first statement is one hundred percent fallacy. Well, in the second, there are exceptions.
Body positive is gaining momentum. Plus-size models are no longer surprising – gradually, the attitude towards excess weight among women in society (and most importantly, among women themselves) is changing. Although it’s one thing – a dozen or two extra pounds, but what if these extra kilos are a hundred or two? We tried to find out if women weighing more than 150 kg can give birth to healthy children. Indeed, according to doctors, women with such a weight, as a rule, have such profound hormonal disorders that they often simply cannot get pregnant. Accordingly, the pregnancy of such a woman is associated with a huge risk – the health of the woman in labor and the baby is under threat. In general, it may or may not be lucky.
Tess Holliday, 155 kilograms
The famous model is the thinnest mom in our ranking. Thanks to the 155-pound Tess Holliday millions of people around the world are regularly convinced that being overweight is also beautiful. We’re not kidding – her Instagram has almost 2 million subscribers, besides, Tess is one of the most famous plus-size models and often adorns the covers of popular women’s magazines. In June 2016, Tess gave birth to her second son, whom she named Bowie. The model’s firstborn, Riley, was born 10 years earlier.
Pauline Potter, 330 kilograms
Pauline was never thin. Her whole family was, to put it mildly, overweight: mom weighed 180 kilograms, dad – 270. In addition to Pauline, the family had seven children. Everyone’s weight in adulthood has exceeded a hundred. Pauline was no exception. The fact that her weight was rapidly increasing, she blamed only genetics – despite the fact that she could not do without food for more than an hour or two. I ate everything, except for some reason cabbage.
Pauline’s breakfast, for example, usually consists of three bowls of fritters, a six-egg omelet, eight buttered sandwiches, a pound of bacon, and a liter of milkshake.
However, Pauline still managed to find a mate and get married, have a child. True, the marriage did not last long, the woman was left alone with her son in her arms. At that time, she weighed 273 kilograms. The grown-up son took care of his mother, who could no longer serve herself because of the monstrous weight. Later, Pauline got married again, and from the moment of engagement to the wedding, she gained another 20 kilos. And then she decided to divorce because of problems with her husband’s son. And she recovered to 317 kilograms, earning the title of the fattest woman in the world.
Muscovite Nonna, 250 kilograms
In 2009, a boy was born in one of the Moscow maternity hospitals. And although he was born prematurely and weighed about 2 kilograms, he was nevertheless healthy. His mother, a 34-year-old Muscovite named Nonna, weighed 250 kg at the time of delivery. The girl endured pregnancy tests steadfastly, but was tired of the attention of doctors, which is not surprising, since she spent almost the entire pregnancy in the pathology department under supervision, gaining 60 kg in weight during this time. The child was more than long-awaited for the girl – it took her 16 long years to get pregnant, therefore, despite the doctors’ persuasion to have an abortion (due to problems with the kidneys and blood pressure, carrying a child was dangerous for her mother’s health), she nevertheless decided to give birth … As it turned out, not in vain. For the sake of her son, a year after his birth, Nonna decided to go on a diet and lost 50 kg in a few months.
Donna Simpson, 273 kilograms
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Childbirth at an American Donna Simpson took a team of 30 doctors – a cesarean section in a 241-kg woman in labor was associated with a risk to her health. However, everything worked out, the daughter, who was named Jacqueline, was born healthy. But to call her mother’s hobby for weight gain healthy does not turn her head. Six months after the birth of her daughter, Donna decided she wanted to gain 1000 pounds (454 kg). And he makes every effort to this, absorbing 15 thousand kilocalories a day. Her sample menu is mind-boggling: four burgers, a loaf of peanut butter bread, fries, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, large pizza, chocolate ice cream cake, twelve muffins, two cheesecakes, and soda. She also loves sushi and can eat 70 in one sitting. And at the same time he tries to move as little as possible.
To pay for her feasts, Donna has created a website through which she sells to her subscribers photographs of the food she is eating, as well as a video of the process itself. Surprisingly, there are plenty of people willing to gawk at her feasts, which brings her about 90 thousand dollars a year. However, there are also enough ill-wishers – a woman is often criticized for promoting an unhealthy lifestyle.
Monica Riley, 317 kilograms
29-year-old American Monica Riley weighed 317 kg and dreamed of becoming the fattest on the planet, in which her husband actively supported her, literally pouring protein shakes into her narrowed one through a funnel. Monica gave up her dream when she found out about pregnancy. At first, the girl did not even believe – she already had two miscarriages, and she also suffered from polycystic ovary syndrome. All doubts disappeared when she saw her future daughter on an ultrasound scan.
In order to give birth to a healthy baby, Monica changed her habits – she began to eat correctly and move more, she began to lose weight even during pregnancy. The girl was nevertheless born prematurely, small, with breathing problems and spent another month and a half in the clinic. In the end, however, everything ended well. Monica continues to lose weight – she has already lost more than 100 kg and is not going to stop, her goal is to lose weight up to 115 kg. But she definitely does not want to become thin, according to Monica herself, she likes to be plump and soft.
There is another extreme – the smallest mothers in the world. For example, a 26-year-old American Christianna rae, whose height is only 84 cm due to a rare disease of the musculoskeletal system.
The girl with glasses is Kristianna Rae
She gave birth to a daughter at 20 at the risk of her own life, making not only herself happy, but also her boyfriend Jeremy, who promised to carry his beloved in his arms. It will not be difficult for him, because Jeremy’s height is 190 centimeters. But, unfortunately, Christianna’s daughter was born with the same disease as her mother.
And until recently, the title of the smallest mother in the world belonged to an American Stacey Herald, whose height was 70 cm. Since birth, she suffered from osteogenesis imperfecta, could not even walk, moving in a wheelchair, which did not prevent her from meeting a loved one and giving birth to three children from him. Moreover, despite the doctors’ advice not to do this, there was a very high risk that Stacy would die from the compression of internal organs by her own fetus, or the movement of the baby would break her bones. However, nothing happened. The eldest daughter of Stacy and Will, who worked as an assistant priest, inherited her mother’s illness, like their youngest son. Only the couple’s middle daughter was born healthy. And in September last year, Stacy died at the age of 45.