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Are we so starved for celebrity-type attention we will destroy ourselves to do so?

Donna Simpson is a 42 year-old mother whose goal, if you can call it that, is to weigh 1,000 pounds. To do this, she has to gain 400 pounds as she already eclipses the 600 pound mark. The Guinness Book of Records already has recorded her as the heaviest mother to give birth in 2007. But that's not enough...she wants to gain more attention by weighing 453.59 kilograms.

I don't know about you, but I don't know too many fat senior citizens. And what's more troubling is the aforementioned fact that she's a mother, to two kids. It's one thing to purposely harm yourself, but to do so in front of your children...what does that tell them? How will that affect how they're brought up? And how much will they suffer when their mother dies and they've lost a parent?

To add further to the disgust, she runs a website that charges visitors for the privilege to watch her eat and wash herself.

At the very least, the Guinness people should call her up and tell her they're removing the pointless "heaviest mother" record and they're also not going to bother to report on this latest "effort" of hers to get into the record books again. I don't see any value in keeping these records that pretty much lead someone to an early grave.

By the way, her grocery bill? $815 a week. I'm guessing her kids get that $15.