Britain’s heaviest woman dies of heart attack

Britain’s heaviest woman, Sharon Mevsimler, has this week died in her hospital bed after suffering a heart attack at Broomfield Hospital in Essex. It has been revealed that, despite doctors imploring her to eat healthily, Mrs Mevsimler had persuaded her family and friends to smuggle in large meals of fish and chips and fried chicken.

Gastric bypass

Mrs Mevsimler had reached a dangerous 45st by the time of her death, and was required to constantly wear an oxygen mask due to the amount of pressure that her weight put on her lungs.

Although it was originally reported that the 41 year old was asked to lose weight before receiving a gastric bypass, it is believed that Mrs Mevsimler actually did receive the surgery but still continued to eat junk food.

The Sun newspaper reported that the mother of four actually regretted having the surgery, quoting Mrs Mevsimler as saying “now I'm even more miserable because I'm struggling to eat food like chocolate and takeaways”. The £30,000 operation is meant to help obese people by lessening their appetites; it is believed though that Mrs Mevsimler had pleaded with family members to bring her huge amounts of fast food.

Left to die

Last month Mrs Mevsimler claimed that she had been “left to die”, and told reporters that “If I was anorexic I would get proper help but no one has sympathy for obese people”. A NHS source told The Sun that “She obviously had a serious underlying problem with food, but did nothing to help herself”.