World's Fattest Woman Plans To Get Fatter

I’ve always thought that humanity as a species has reached its apex in the food chain of the planet due to evolution. Objectie natural selection and the challenges our species faced along the eons has shaped its body and pshychology. Evolution gave us our brains, and it was our most succesful tool.

We have our civilization now, as our darwinian reward. Yet in may ways, we’ve broken free from the chains of natural selection and are now a sufficiently powerful element on our plan to dictate our own evolution.

Now – why the introduction? Well, it’s people like Susanne Eman  that make me realize just how badly evolution (more importantly, natural selection) can be mocked and toppled by our civilization.

You see, morbid obesity isn’t a survival trait. Yet we have Susanne here, an 32 yeard old American woman that weighs in at 340 kilos and is proud of it. „. Deep down I had always known I wanted to be fat, but I thought I was alone in this feeling.” Says Susanne on her official website here.

Susanne Eman, 32, mother of two

Most people of that weight are concerned with losing it, yet Susanne has other goals: she wants to gain a lot more weight, and become the world’s fattest woman. This is a person who is completely enamoured with the idea of being as fat as she can be, and according to her, the heavier the she gets, the better she feels. She says her excitement is hard to put in words, but what she can tell us is that she sees the way her body moves as „poetry in motion”.

Susanne and her sister

She plans to reach 800 kilograms, or 1600lb by eating 20.000 calorie meals every day. She’s not alone in her endeavor to gain weight. Her familiy and boyfriend support her in every way, and her sons join her on monthly 8-hour sojourn to the supermarket to fill six shopping carts. Her boyfriend, Parker Clack, 38, helps her out with cooking and housework and literally spoon feeds the woman. She moves around by scooter, yet she still believes she can stay healthy. In fact she insists on breaking the record despite warning from her doctor that it might kill her, and she claims to take regular readings of her vitals herself.

Susanne spends 8 hours shopping each month

Dr Patrick Flite said: ‘She's really playing Russian roulette with her life with this goal. There are well-documented complications that come with morbid obesity. I would never encourage anyone to be doing what Susanne is doing.’ (link)

While it is encouraging that the woman herself has found someone who loves her and supports her, I find his devotion to her goal something abusive and perhaps selfish. There’s a disorder asociated with people called „feeders”, who derive pleasure from feeding others and fattening them. (link)

Susanne claims there's poetry in the motion of her body

I can’t in all honesty believe you can claim to love someone and at the same time help speed that someone towards their fatty demise. Doing something like that is sick and abusive. If you really love someone you don’t blindly support their dream when that dream could kill them. I would never do anything like that. I want my loved ones alive and heathy.

If you’re curious, here’s Susanne’s daily diet:

Breakfast: 6 x eggs scrambled, cooked in butter 468 cals. 1/2 pound bacon 1,168 cals, 4 x potatoes as hash browns 672 cals, 6 x pieces toast with butter 600 cals, 32 ounce cream shake 1,160 cals. Snacking 1 x bag of animal cookies 1,950 cals, 2litre bottle of soft drink 800 cals, 1 x 10.5 ounce bag of barbecue flavour crisps 1,650 cals, 3 x ham and cheese sandwiches 1,576 cals.

Lunch: 3 x beef, bean and green chilli burritos with 1 x cup of sour cream 1,453 cals. Salad (1 head lettuce, 1 cup cherry tomatoes, 1 cup carrots, 1 cucumber, 1/2 cup ranch dressing, bacon bits, 1 cup crumbled cheese, 1 cup chicken 1,479 cals.

Dinner: 12 x filled tacos + 1 x cup sour cream 4,906 cals, 2litre bottle of soda 800 cals, Dessert 8 x scoops vanilla ice cream 2,080 cals, 1 x small pan of brownies 1,200 cals.

Total: 21,962 calories

So what do you think?