Patty Sanchez once dreamed of being the world’s heaviest woman.
In Reno, Nevada, this mother of four and grandmother of five came to eat 13.000 calories a day. Her boyfriend of about ten years served her every meal and enjoyed watching her eat. She gained about 6 kilos a month and came to weigh 327 kilos. “I felt sexy and was happy to please him”, she recalls. But there came a point when she couldn’t walk three steps to the bathroom without getting out of breath, and it took her 20 minutes to get back to bed.
The breaking point came when he started asking a group of fans to pay to feed her while he was away. “It was no longer personal”, she says. They broke up, and Patty had to fend for herself: she learned to cook and chose what to eat for herself. Today, at 51, she weighs 216 kilos, 107 less, and eats about 3.000 calories a day, including salads, chicken, and stir-fries, with help from her sons Scott and Logan. She can now walk, bathe, and paint her toenails, something she hadn’t been able to reach for in years.
“I don’t regret a thing”, she says. “I came to my senses and saved my life”.
