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Quick summary: 600lb woman is attempting to put on 400lbs in 2 years so she can become world's fattest woman.
From the interview, I immediately thought of Dr. Yalom's (controversial?) "Fat Lady" story. In both cases patient has loving mother who overfeeds patient as child and then the mother passes away in patient's childhood. And in this case the Dad even re-married someone who put the kids on a strict diet.
The "psychoanalytic" (not sure if that's the exact term I want, but I think you know what I mean) implications of this childhood leading to obesity would seem pretty blatant to anyone.
Is this "merely" someone with a tough childhood suddenly realizing a path to become famous?
Or is this some sort of a named disorder?
Quick summary: 600lb woman is attempting to put on 400lbs in 2 years so she can become world's fattest woman.
From the interview, I immediately thought of Dr. Yalom's (controversial?) "Fat Lady" story. In both cases patient has loving mother who overfeeds patient as child and then the mother passes away in patient's childhood. And in this case the Dad even re-married someone who put the kids on a strict diet.
The "psychoanalytic" (not sure if that's the exact term I want, but I think you know what I mean) implications of this childhood leading to obesity would seem pretty blatant to anyone.
Is this "merely" someone with a tough childhood suddenly realizing a path to become famous?
Or is this some sort of a named disorder?