After all the twists and turns of life, the woman still doesn’t give up and continues to live a full life.
After all the twists and turns of life, the woman still doesn’t give up and continues to live a full life.
There are a million stories online about how girls lose weight fantastically just by eating cabbage, apples, or kefir. But…
This story of extreme weight loss by single mother Charity Pierce will surprise you greatly.
This woman was once called one of the fattest women in the world. After gaining 347 kg, Pierce realized that although she loved fast food, she seemed to be dying soon.
For the sake of her daughter and her 22-year-old boyfriend (yes, really!), she decided to radically change her life and went on the TV show “My 600-lb Life.”
Lost 232 kg, a kidney, and her boyfriend: the sad story of one of the fattest women in the world
The 38-year-old American from Iowa suffered not only from obesity but also from lymphedema. Because of this disease, so much fluid accumulated in her limbs that her left leg swelled to an incredible size. After some time, she could no longer move on her own.
For the sake of her beloved Tony, Charity was ready for a lot. After she stopped fitting into a regular car, and renting a special vehicle would cost $5,000, she decided she couldn’t continue like that. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even get to the registry office!
In the name of love, her daughter, and for her own well-being, Pierce agreed to participate in the TLC program, but even there, things were not easy.
The woman critically needed a stomach band. But for the surgery to be safe, doctors demanded she lose 121 kg first. Surgeons agreed to perform the extremely complex operation on the condition that she weighed no more than 226 kg.
“The only thing that will save my life is gastric bypass surgery. But I am a single mother with a disability, and I have no one to rely on except myself,” she said then.
The weight loss process was not easy. Whereas before she consumed several thousand calories a day, now she was allowed only 1200. Charity switched to salads and yogurts. Before, she would eat a whole buffet table in a day: two pizzas, several sandwiches, five donuts, a pack of popcorn, two lasagnas, a bag of chips, and ice cream.
At the moment, Ms. Pierce has lost 220 kg and continues dieting and diligently following a specially designed program. Meanwhile, her daughter has gained weight over the past two years and at 18 weighs nearly 180 kg! Both heredity and lifestyle played a role.
After losing weight, Charity broke up with Tony — he didn’t wait for her to slim down and cheated on her. Following this, the woman began drinking, and her daughter ran away from her.
In 2020, Pierce announced on her social media that she had been diagnosed with cancer: “At Christmas, I found out I had kidney cancer. It shocked me because my mother died of brain cancer. The next step was to remove my kidney as soon as possible before it spread to other organs. So, on March 2, I had my kidney removed. Now I am recovering at home, trying to heal. I just hope that only good things await me in the future.”
Charity seems to have endured all her suffering. Now the woman weighs a little over 100 kg, has quit drinking, taken up tattoos, and restored her relationship with her daughter.
During this time, Pierce’s daughter got married and had a child. Now the happy grandmother spends all her time with the baby but does not forget about her health and works out.
