World’s fattest woman loses 200lb before reaching goal weight (photos)
A mother who was crowned the world's fattest woman after her comfort eating spiraled dangerously out of control has shed a staggering 440lb (31st 4lb), the Daily Mail reported.
Charity Pierce, 40, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, pleaded with doctors to perform life-saving gastric surgery on her as she tipped the scales at 778lb (55st 6lb).
Now two years later, the star TLC's My 600lb Life; Where Are They Now? has undergone several surgeries including ops to cut off heavy fatty masses on her legs and surgery to remove 38lb (2st 7lb) of excess skin to achieve her slimmer frame - but now fears her daughter Charly's eating is out of control.
“At almost 800lb [57st] I was a prisoner in my own body. But losing weight has been a lot harder than I ever expected,' Charity said on the show.
The skin surgeries have also caused complications: “Since I've lost so much weight, the excess skin on my stomach has been causing a lot of problems. I've been getting a lot of cellulitis infections.
“I've had to go back to the hospital a couple of times in the past month to be treated, and it's frustrating because it's really hard to keep making progress with these complications. And my body is still really misshapen.'
But Charity explained on the show that she has grown increasingly-concerned for her daughter Charly - who has picked up the same unhealthy eating habits as her mother.
'I'm worried about her, because she's a food addict like I am, and I've started noticing the weight gain,' she told the cameras.
“I know what it's like to be too heavy to do anything and I don't want her to get there. But whenever I say anything about her weight her feelings get hurt. I don't like seeing her cry but I don't want her to jeopardize her health either.”
In 2014 Charity, who was housebound, was determined to have her story filmed by TLC as she was convinced it was the only way to save her life - and felt filming the show would motivate her to lose enough weight to be able to travel and see her mother, who was dying of brain cancer.
At the time, although she was almost 200lb (14st 3lb) over the recommended weight for gastric surgery, Houston-based surgeon Dr Younan Nowzaradan took her on, helping her get down to 650lb (46st) over five months, so that he could put her through the procedure that would shrink her stomach to the size of a baseball.
But sadly, the operation came too late for Charity - who lives with daughter Charly and fiance Tony Sauer, 24 - to see her mother, who died while she was recovering from surgery.
Yet she faced further procedures to tackle her ongoing health problems, which were caused by an addiction to food that was sparked by seeing her brutal father beat her mother.
In addition to her gastric surgeries, Charity also had to undergo an operation to remove the large masses of fatty deposits on her legs which weighed 57lbs (4st) on their own.
Then more than a year later she almost died after going under the knife again to have 38lbs of excess skin removed and the wound became infected and Charity was rushed back into hospital in danger of going into septic shock.
Meanwhile, as Charity battled for her life, her daughter Charly faced her own weight nightmare after years of copying her mother's eating habits saw her reach 400lbs (28st 6lb).
But in the months since Charity and Charly appeared on My 600lb Life, they have managed to turn their lives around, with the pair revealing that therapy has played a huge part in their new lifestyle, allowing them to address the psychological aspects of their dangerous dependency on food for emotional support.
In the catch-up show that aired last night, the mother and daughter duo also explained how they now cook healthy meals and food shop together.
The pair's lifestyle turnaround comes two years after Charity's first surgery, and she was proud to reveal that she has lost a whopping 440lbs in that time, thanks to the numerous procedures she has undergone - and her ongoing healthy lifestyle.
Indeed, Charity has been through a remarkable transformation since her first appearance on the show back in April 2014, when she pleaded with producers to let her feature, having become convinced that it was the only way to save her life.
As the fattest woman in the world, with a developed a medical condition called lymphedema, which caused a huge swelling on her left leg, Charity couldn't fit into a car, and was desperate to crowdfund the $5,000 to pay for a private ambulance to drive her to the weight-loss hospital in Texas where Dr. Nowzaradan is based.
She wrote on her Go Fund Me Page at the time: 'A doctor in Texas willing to do patients over 600lbs [is] my only hope.
'The one thing that's going to save my life is gastric bypass. But I'm a single mother on disability with no one to count on besides myself.'
Charity hoped that Dr. Nowzaradan would be able to get her healthy enough to see her ailing mother before she passed away, and she knew that losing a huge chunk of weight would be the only way she would live to see daughter Charly grow up, and make it to her dream wedding to Tony, her boyfriend who is 17 years her junior and served as her carer for much of their relationship.
She first turned to TV show doctors for help in 2012, when she released a video on YouTube pleading for someone to get her case to Dr Phil.
She explained in the clip that she first developed lymphedema in 2001 after falling down a flight of stairs, and then had to fight off flesh eating bacteria, necrotising fascitis in her abdomen.
“They had to cut out 40lb of dead muscle and tissue. My left side looks as though a shark took a big bite out of it,' said Charity.
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