Donna Simpson (born 1967) is a woman who in 2008 expressed a "desire" to become one of the world's heaviest women, in competition with Susanne Eman.
In 2010, she won the Guinness World Records for the "Heaviest woman to give birth".
He encouraged her to eat by bringing leftovers home from work for her; Simpson said "he liked me supersized".
In 2006, she met Phillippe Gouamba in an online chat room for overweight women.
On February 13, 2007, Simpson gave birth to a baby girl named Jacqueline via cesarean section.
Six months after giving birth, she decided that her target weight would be 800 pounds (363 kg).
Dr. Carla Wolper, a registered dietitian research faculty member at the New York Obesity Research Center, criticized Simpson's eating habits, saying they are self-destructive and New Jersey taxpayers will end up footing her health bills.
[11] In late 2010, Simpson was contacted by a magazine editor who told her "they were going to buy her Christmas dinner for her family".
Subscribers can access photos of her body and videos of her eating and measuring her waistline.
[9] Simpson is an advocate for the fat acceptance movement[10] and has ridiculed "people who feel guilty about eating" as "hilarious".
[13] In August 2011, after separating from Gouamba and returning to Akron, Simpson decided to go on a diet to reduce her weight to a target of 370 pounds (170 kg) in order to become more self-sufficient and to be able to do a better job of raising her children.