Woman aspires to beat Guinness record

In an article I recently read on Fox News.com, a 42 year old woman is hoping to be in the Guinness Book or Records. Not an uncommon goal, a lot of people aspire to beat records. Her goal, however, is to become the fattest woman ever. Her name is Donna Simpson and she is the mother of two children and is currently 600 pounds and to beat the record she must be over 1,000 pounds. She insists that she is healthy, while eating around 12,000 calories of food a day at a cost of about $750 a week. She has a boyfriend who is supportive of her goal and even admits that he likes her weight. She cannot get around unless aided by a scooter and says she earns the money to feed by being a part of a web site where people pay to watch her eat fatty foods.

I am sickened, repulsed, and totally grossed out by this story. My thoughts did not change one bit as I read it and after browsing through some of the comments others have left regarding it, I feel even more strongly about my initial feelings toward the story.

How could anyone be so selfish that they would put their life at risk in such a way? I do not understand why she would ever want to leave her children motherless, especially for something that is so meaningless. For people out there that have serious psychological problems that lead to food dependency or eating disorders, this is like a serious slap in the face. It is sickening to think about because all my life I have heard of the starving people in other countries who don't have even one meal a day to live on, and here this lady is stuffing her face shamelessly for personal gain. I have nothing but contempt for someone who is so self serving that she would purposefully eat till she can't even walk around by herself. She even says "she tries to stay sedentary, so she burns as few calories as necessary". I seriously had to read that sentence three times because I could not believe what I was reading.

There is no reason someone who can help themselves shouldn't be doing everything they possibly can to be healthy so their children don't have to suffer the burden of their death at such a young age. No one will ever be able to explain why Donna Simpson would rather eat a doughnut than be there to see her children grow up.