Donna Simpson
“We wanna see the pig in action!!”
This is but one of the many comments that appeared on the UK Telegraph’s website after it posted a story about Donna Simpson, a 42 year-old mother of two from New Jersey who wants to be the world’s fattest woman.
To do this, she’ll have to double her weight to hit the 1,000lb mark (roughly 454kg), giving her the dubious honour of weighing more than any other woman on the planet: about 6.8 times the weight of the average woman in Australia.
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