Catrina Raiford is an American woman who was once considered to be the heaviest woman in the world, weighing on a frame.
At age 14, she weighed close to . Her family placed her for eight months in a psychiatric home. As an adult, Raiford continued to gain weight. Unable to deal with her emotional issues, she eventually lost her job and moved back in with her mother.
Raiford became known as the 'Half Tonne Woman'
before she lost half her
body weight
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.
Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of weight without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessor ...
. She was inspired to do that in December 2003, when she had to be “bulldozed out of
erhouse” after calling for help due to breathing difficulties.
For five years until that point she had been bedridden.
It took Raiford three years to lose close to .
Following that accomplishment in 2005 she became eligible for the
gastric bypass surgery
Gastric bypass surgery refers to a technique in which the stomach is divided into a small upper pouch and a much larger lower "remnant" pouch and then the small intestine is rearranged to connect to both. Surgeons have developed several differ ...
and has lost a total of close to .
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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