World's Fattest Man Marries!
Filed under: Love Line
This is bitter-sweet.
The world's fattest man has just gotten married.
43 year-old former mechanic Manuel Uribe, who hasn't been able to leave his bed for the past six years, just got married to his longtime girlfriend, Claudia Solis, this weekend in Mexico.
His wife made her entrance at the ceremony while walking down a flight of stairs, wearing a strapless ivory dress and a tiara.
Uribe, however, had to be brought in a bed decorated with a canopy in white, with flowers and gold-trimmed bows, while being lifted on a flatbed truck.
The truck was escorted by two police patrol cars through traffic before arriving at a local event hall.
Uribe wore a white, silk shirt with a sheet wrapped around his legs.
In attendance for the wedding, were over 400 guests. They were served meat, buttered veggies, and a five-tier wedding cake.
And as for their first dance, the newlyweds held hands and swayed to a slow song.
The wedding was closed to most media, though it will be featured in an upcoming Discovery Channel documentary on Uribe.
Before the wedding, Uribe told the reporters that were following him through the street to the wedding that, "I have a wife and will form a new family and live a happy life."
Let's hope he gets to live long enough to enjoy his married life.
Back in 2006, Uribe weighed in at an incredible 1,230 lbs! He then earned the Guinness Book of World Records' title for the world's heaviest man.
Luckily, though, after meeting Solis four years ago - with her help - Uribe has been able to lose about 550 lbs.
He now hopes to become the world's largest weight loser.
Good luck and congrats the happy couple!
[Image via AP Images.]
congratulations to them! this woman has a heart of gold. I wish him good luck with his health and weight loss!
glad that she has got him motivated to loose weight, but i DO NOT understand how he let himself get that big in the first place. AND if he wasn't able to leave his bed, who the fuck was feeding him? i don't un derstand.
awww….. she's pretty!
congrats to them. However, i wonder what made her fall for him…she's an attractive woman who can be active. He's morbidly obese and bedridden. And how could they afford the wedding? I mean i'm sure he gets taxpayer money for being so fat that he can't work, but it's not THAT much to be able to afford a big wedding…oh wait he probably got paid for TV shows. i don't mean to sound negative, i'm glad there's someone for everyone.
oooohhh so I gotta pack on300 pounds to get married…damn I never knew that…thank Hilton
So i guess she likes fat!!!
(throw up a bit in my mouth)
congrats
sad, sad, sad. i hope this can be a turning point in his life. i hope his new wife has a positive impact on him to help him help himself before he dies of his condition.
i hope he realizes that any kids he has are probably going to be conceived invitro. god knows when a guy's that big, his junk is buried like King Tut's treasure.