Supersize Me: Pauline Potter at her heaviest (Image: PA)
This is the remarkable story of how a woman who became the world’s fattest by gorging on a breakfast of six scrambled eggs, half a pound of bacon, four hash browns and six slices of buttered bread washed down with ice cream milkshake turned it all around to lose more than 500 pounds.
By 2012, weighing 50 stone, the then mum-of-one officially entered the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Heaviest Living Woman 2012.
Others were waiting in the wings to rob her of the title.
Pauline was just one of the women part of the group called Supersize Big Beautiful Women who believed that the bigger you got, the more beautiful you become.
Fat Fighters: Pauline, Dr Now and her son at a weight loss session (Image: Dr Now)
Eventually, years of rubbing corn starch on folds of skin, requiring the help of others, to prevent yeast infections, made her decide to go on a diet, starring in the hit US show My 600lb Life along the way.