World's Heaviest Woman that Underwent Gastric Bypass Surgery Died

There was a documentary on about 2 days ago about this woman! I feel bad for her because though she was obese, she didn't get to the point where she couldn't leave the house until she was struck by a drunk driver which crushed her leg and left her bed bound. Unlike a lot of the super obese people you hear about, it wasn't simply bad diet, it was circumstances out of her control.

That poor woman. I hope she has some peace now. :(

Sad but self-inflicted.

When you see that flesh monster of a hand raising more food towards your piehole - just say no!

Like any other addiction, the person has to be ready and willing to fight it. That tubbyloon obviously had a death wish (and a family that allowed it to happen).

You can't control your appetite but you can control how much you eat.

Tragic, but there are definitely things she could've done differently to help her situation.

Funny how the comments range from pure compassion to flippant condemnation.

Humans are a varied lot....

Addictions are a very complicated thing to some people, and any form of it isn't as cut and dry as a logical choice. Of course, in this scenario it didn't help that she was incapacitated.

I just wish she would have gotten the surgical help, hat is seemed she needed, sooner. My sypathies go out to those who cared about her. I hope they know that it's not their fault they weren't able to 'cure' her.

My initial reaction is to agree that it was self inflicted, technically it was but its also not that cut-and-dried. We all eat and many of us know what it feels like to want to overeat yet we resist the temptation. This makes us feel we are able to say with some certainty that hers was a moral failing. but I've also been a drug addict most of my adult life and true hardcore addictive behavior isn't something you can deal with, with a little willpower. At one point I'm sure this woman had it in her to stop had she put for the effort but after a certain point signals to the primitive part of your brain mix up addictive behavior with other critical functions like survival, fear, sexual feelings etc and it turns from habit into a base need. At the time of her death she was probably no less addicted than the worst crack or heroin addict.

hopefully she has some peace now.

People can be so cruel... this woman suffered and died trying to get her addiction under control. I went through the same thing... only I wasn't that bad. I lost the weight, but I still remember the nasty remarks that people make, and it still stings. I'm sure this woman felt bad enough about the way he became, the comments just pushed her further into a depression and self loathing.
Be nice folks.

@just a guy:
I just wish she would have gotten the surgical help, hat is seemed she needed, sooner.

Gastric Bypass isn't surgical help. It's surgically induced disability that forces you to take subsist on a starvation diet and supplements so you don't suffer malnutrition. If you even try to eat a modest balanced diet, the quantities of food are too large and make you sick.

It's an expensive and dangerous procedure that takes the place of putting the fork down. The only reason it works is because you have no choice but to eat 500 calories a day, or spend all your time vomiting up your meal.

The only sympathy I feel for this woman is that she was MURDERED by her family. A bed ridden woman can't cook. Someone was preparing her meals, they could have controlled her intake.

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Food addiction is tough, because we all have to eat. Imagine falling off the wagon on a daily basis.

I don't think morbidly obese people like Rene could control what she ate - even if she wanted to. It's like telling a crack addict to "just say no" or a clinically depressed person to "just snap out of it." These people need medical intervention.

The sad truth is that even with a gastric bypass, her chance of getting slim and staying slim is very, very small. Almost all morbidly obese people who managed to lose (a lot of) weight with whatever means, surgical or not, regain all those weight and then some.

Though Hollywood's take on the family's responsibility on this is a bit extreme, I agree with that sentiment: there is an "enabler" to this woman's addiction.

Re Hollywood and Alex:

Lucky for you, you two seem to have been blessed to not have any vices, addictions, diseases or whatnot.

My dad has recently undergone gastric bypass; he was not quite so obese, only around 300+, but even still he has already lost more than 50 pounds and is on the road to good health. If not for this surgery, I could be sure to have lost my dad in the coming few years. Thank god that doctors and scientists out there care about humanity and understand that the human condition is not always so cut and dry.

For the record, it is a fact that some people just get fatter than others, no matter what they eat.

Also, there is 'lap band' and not just gastric bypass. One of my aunts had lap band, and its been successful (what a difference!) for almost 4 years. I've met some of her friend she met through her surgery-support-group thing, and some have had it for quite a long time and not gained anything back.

@brayden
"For the record, it is a fact that some people just get fatter than others, no matter what they eat."

That's a good fantasy that twinkie cake addicts tell themselves at 2:00am, but besides late night diet commercials and The Sun tabloid, in what SCIENCE journal is that "fact" published.

Dear Neatorama author:

I think this article is in very poor taste. This isn't neat at all. This is a tragic story...were you having problems coming up with a story ideas? This isn't even current events....I don't understand why you posted this...

one word sex
she should have gotten lots of it before she was extreamly fat
sex is the best excersise its scientifacy proven

@ VonSkippy:

Actually, Brayden is right. For some people it's hormonal. I would know. I eat like a bird and exercise, yet my weight kept going up and never went down. Then a doctor told me that though my testosterone levels were normal for a female, my body reacted to it like it was extremely high. Weight gain and an inability to take it off were side effects. Since June, I've been on a birth control that blocks testosterone and the pounds are coming off.

@Brayden - I'm sorry to hear that your father had to undergo surgery, but am glad to hear that he is on the road to good health. Recently, my father had a mild stroke (he's also recovering, thank God) so I know what it felt like having a health emergency in your family.

I was actually sympathetic to morbidly obese people like Renee Williams. I don't think that the condition is their fault (I mentioned that "I don’t think morbidly obese people like Rene could control what she ate - even if she wanted to.")

In extreme cases like Renee's, there is always an enabler: she is bed-ridden and cannot get out of bed. Even though her condition worsened and her weight ballooned, someone in her family a) didn't call the doctor b) kept on feeding her lots of food.

In many cases of gastric bypass surgery, nurses have to frisk/search family members visiting the patient for food contrabands!

This lady was born with a self-destruct mechanism in place before the car accident. The results of the car accident only accelerated her self-destruction. Her comments on the show indicated she had no confront on what condition she really was in. She could not see what was "wrong" with her situation until the end when she was forced to confront consequences by the fact she was going to die. It takes a severe reality adjustment for people to change sometimes. I feel no sympathy for her other than sympathy for the fact that no one helped her to beat the time bomb she was probably born with. Life events were "symptoms." The CAUSE was never found, and she died famous as the heaviest woman on Earth, and leaving 2 kids. Very sad.

fat walrus ate too much. a lot of americans are fat now because they simply eat way too much.
i think its funny.

@Jason

YOU ARE A ASSHOLE AND YOU HAVE NOT FEELINGS, THEL LADY DIED AND YOU CALL HER A FAT WALRUS.....SHAME ON YOU

D: i cant belive this story..soooo sad ): i feel bad for her and her children

i am watching the dcmntry rght now and feel bad for the children she left behind. she not only lied to herslf and children she lied to everyone tht was or has watched this show. she sd she dd not eat much. everyne on the show sd otherwise. it's funny how people act when they find out they r on deaths doorstep.

I watched this documentary last night. Renee was a beautiful woman that suffered from a food addiction. Too bad, no one helped her sooner!

what a sad story so many people in this world have addictions and no one knows when you have a food addiction everyone can see it, porn, sex, drugs, alcohol, whatever. We're all in this together no one knows another human being situation, we should all be nicer to one another it may be you loved one struggling. God bless us all.