I saw some pictures of Manuel Uribe on the AP website, and couldn’t believe how happy he looked. This photo is taken of him after he had lost almost 500 pounds, and no longer weighed his record breaking 1,235 lbs (which is nearly 7 times my own weight). Apparently the upper part of his legs are tumors from a liposuction operation that went wrong. He is the current Guinness Book of Records holder for heaviest person in the world, and is hoping to break a new record this summer for having lost the most amount of weight. His fiancee, who was previously married to a now deceased obese man, was quoted as saying “(My family) were worried about me being involved with another fat man, because they thought another husband would die on me.” Uribe moved to America for a few years in the 80’s and blames that trip for his weight gain, saying “It is all because of the junk food.”
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