World Heaviest Woman Losses 600 Pounds

The world’s heaviest woman who was also
accused of murder has reportedly lost 600
pounds (about 272kg) in five years.

32-year-old Mayra Rosales was nicknamed the
Half-Ton Killer after she made headlines in 2008
of murdering her nephew with her own 1,000-
pound body.

She has now decided to save her
own life by losing the wight.
According to a press release, she has indeed
managed to shed ‘an astounding amount of
weight’ thanks to surgeries, physical therapy,
rehabilitation and huge changes to her diet.

But with her new 400-pound body, she must
learn to carry out normal activities she has never
been exposed to, like grocery shopping and job
hunting.

Even though she confessed in 2008, Mayra was
acquitted of her nephew’s murder in 2011 after
evidence concluded that the boy had multiple
injuries to his skull that were not indicative of
being smothered.

At the time, her lawyer Sergio Valdez told the
court: ‘It would have required her to have to
swing her arm to strike the child on the head but
she could never move her arm in that manner.’

Mayra then testified that she witnessed her sister
Jaime using a brush to hit her son Eliseo
repeatedly on his arms, legs and head.

‘We were all trying to cover for my sister,’ she
testified from her bed, to which she was confined
because of her weight.

‘There was abuse from her towards her son. She
yelled at him. She kicked him. On that night
Junior didn’t want to eat and she got frustrated
and she hit him on the head with a hairbrush.

‘I thought I was dying anyway so I decided to
admit that I’d done it to protect my sister
because I love her,’ she concluded.
Jaime was found guilty of causing injury to a
child, and is currently serving a 15-year sentence.

Today, Mayra has been given a second chance at
life, and one of her goals is to become physically
fit enough to be able to adopt and take care of
her nieces and nephew.

In a recent interview, she admits she had
undergone two surgeries, one on each side of her
legs, and she is awaiting a gastric bypass
surgery in the coming months.
She has also been following a high-protein, low-
carb diet, with plenty of steamed vegetables,
sugar-free desserts and soups.
In the interview, Mayra says optimistically: ‘I’m
turning, sitting up, if I feel like going out I
transfer to the wheelchair. I’m still in movement’.

‘I was alive before, but I didn’t have a life,’ she
says. ‘And now, I do.