>>82025 That is actually a really interesting question, namely, why with women generally getting much fatter today than in the 80s and 90s, and with social media / the internet making it so much easier to identify women like that (not to mention their ability to monetize their size, which did not exist back then) do we not see more of these extreme (ca. 1000 lb) women. Maybe WLS has gotten so much easier since then? Or maybe they exaggerated their weights? I mean, from the few pics we have, I wouldn't say they look 25% bigger than the few 800-lb fatties we get to see. Back in the day, people were less likely to challenge those super-high numbers, and I am not sure how much proof we have that Carol and Rosalie ACTUALLY weighed as much as they claimed.

Weight isn't everything. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty was 4'7½" and the fattest person ever recorded by FAR.

>>82029 Carol's weight was not exaggerated unless someone is impersonating her daughter in Wikipedia discussions, as it's stated to have been used as evidence in a lawsuit by a nurse who was crushed trying to move her greedy blubber.

>>82029 I think in both Carol and Rosalie's cases the pictures we have of them are not of them at their peak weight. See how Rosalie is standing up in that picture for instance. >>82034 Good point yeah, though I'm not sure how much it weakens my argument here.

>>82041 There is this one picture of Carol where she looks significantly bigger but it's too low-quality to make out much.

>>82025 It's probably because there isn't as much interest in profiling super obese people anymore. Guinness World Records discontinued their fattest people categories and I think there's less interest in fatsploitation from media companies like TLC. They still exist, there was Marya Rosales, who only became famous because she was part of a court case. If you read places like nursing subreddits, you occasionally find stories about 900 or 1000 patients. >>82043 That's not Carol, that's a male.

>>82045 Certainly correct, the EMT forums have plenty of super-obese horror stories. They're still out there (maybe more than ever) despite the lack of media attention. Occasionally you'll see stories of people being cut out of buildings, healthcare providers/crematoriums spending vast sums on super-heavy-duty bariatric equipment etc. and other secondary order effects of top-notch obesity.

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>>82052 Do you have versions of the Carol images without upscaling? I don't like the smeared look.

>> 82045 >> 82408 You're right about the Guinness Book of World Records effect, but they didn't have Dr. Now or TLC wanting to do stories about the super-morbidly-obese back then either. Maybe Dr. Now couldn't help someone that big (I know there are max weights that can be operated on safely), but I cannot imagine that the execs at TLC would not be creaming their pants over getting a 1000 lb sister or My half-ton life TV show to exploit someone that huge, nor that the desire to get some fame for being so fat somehow died out at the turn of the millennium. Or that nobody that size has a partner who doesn't want to show off their prize sow, both for the acclaim and the $$$. So there's gotta be something going on here.

>>82069 I’m on the same page as you thinking perhaps their weights could have been slightly inflated (similar to how circus fat ladies said they weighed 700 lbs, but to us who now know what 700 lb women actually look like, can safely say they were closer to 500). VanillaHippo almost reached 1000 lbs when she was on my 600 lb life, and she was HUGE (and like 6’3”).

>>82045 >>82048 Essentially it comes down to this. The age of the daytime television freakshow is over and as a society we're much more health conscious than we were even a decade ago. When most people go to the gym or try to be a clean girl, nobody really wants to hear about a massive tub of lard. Also genetics and predisposition towards edema is what makes someone actually super-heavy. When it comes to Carol Yaeger most of her weight was edema/water retention, now that more people appreciate that it makes her size less of a point of interest and more of a medical issue that people treat with a bit more courtesy and respect. Once people realised that they didn't "eat themselves" to that point, they're mainly a prisoner of out of control fluid retention they lose interest. I find it funny personally because Carol Yaeger and Rosalie don't actually look fat, just big. A lot of really heavy models are less attractive than shorter but fatter looking women like MissT or B*berry.

>>82069 Notably, Dr. Now did gastric bypass on Renee (Half Ton Mom) without any weight loss beforehand, and she died shortly later. Granted, she had accepted the risks, but I think this caused Dr. Now to change his approach with super large patients, especially since I think this was one of his first 900+ pound patients. Later, he operated on Mayra (Half Ton Killer), so i don't think he stopped taking these patients, it's just that TLC stopped starring this type of patient. I noticed the recent My 600 Lbs Life stars seem to be on the "smaller" side, and I suspect TLC wants people who are likely to succeed at Dr. Now's program. >>82074 Yeah but even with the fluid retention, they still weigh like 600 pounds or more.

>>82068 I'm sorry I don't. When I got them from here a few years ago, they were already upscaled.

Samantha aka VanillaHippo was around 950lbs prior to her emergency surgery. She would have been 1000lbs likely in the next 2-3 weeks due to her eating habits at the hospital (sneaking fast food). That's probably the best case of female obesity we have had. Now there are obviously small percentage of women in that size range we just don't know who they are.

>>82025 Fun fact: "Half-Ton Killer" Mayra Rosales was from McAllen, Texas, the fattest town in America in one survey I read.

Answer is pretty simple by the way, Ultraprocessed food was a relatively new thing to the world and a few people got hooked on the addiction to it really hard, but also food was cheap, so there was a rapid binge on it. Everyone else just did a more slow addiction and gained slower. Food is now more expensive and its not novel anymore either so you dont see the rapid, stuff themselves big, types except when they happen. You want to see this come back food prices would need to drop fast while the rest of the world being expensive, also add like 3 decades of sugar/calorie reduction back to the food.

>>82048 I'd like to read some of those stories