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I saw the advert for this documentary (a BodyShock special), and like Lose 30 Stone or Die I knew I was to expect someone, or should that be something I rarely get the chance to see, a poor victim of a growing epidemic, especially in America. Narrated by Alison Steadman, this story basically sees Renee Williams, a 29-year-old mother of two, who was desperate to save her life mainly to see her kids grew. She officially had the record as the world's heaviest woman, at that age, and 64-stone it is no wonder she had so little time to live. To save her life, she decided to plead on the internet to any hospital that would take her to have a life-threatening surgical operation, a triple bypass (stapling her stomach to be smaller to take less intake). It took a long while to carry her through her door, into the ambulance, and into the hospital, but the near-fatal operation was successful. Tragically though she died a few days later from a cardiac arrest, but her story has inspired many similar sized and weight people to go down the same path to try save their life. Good!