A Los Angeles Woman, Mikel Ruffinelli, has the world's largest hips at more than eight feet around. The SUN reported that Ruffinelli is a mother of four with 100 inch curves who struggles to walk through doorways with ease and has to have two seats on planes. She has to drive a truck, because she has a hard time getting into cars. The 400-pound woman works as a plus size model and is proud of her curvy figure and doesn't want to lose weight.
"I love my shape and I see no reason to diet because I don't have health problems," Ruffinelli said to The Daily Mail, "Men don't fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure."
Ruffinelli''s husband Reggie Brooks, 40, loves his curvy wife and says he finds her shape sexy. When Ruffinelli was younger she was only 140 pounds but she always had wide hips.
For the past five years the curvy Ruffinelli, has modeled for Big Beautiful Women, a website in which she wears lingerie and makes up to $1000 per shoot.
"I mostly wear lingerie. I have two seamstresses who make my outfits, although I can easily find clothes for my top half, it's the bottoms that are a problem," she said to The Daily Mail.
Ruffinelli consumes on average 3,000 calories a day. 'It sounds like a lot to have 3,000 calories, but for someone my size, it's not really. I might have a breakfast of two eggs with sausage and bacon and a handful of potatoes. Lunch is fried fish and French fries, but dinner's my big meal," she said to The Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail reported that when Ruffinelli was 22 she had her first child, Andrew, and that is what catapulted her to gaining weight. She went from 182 pounds to 238. When she met her now husband Reggie she had three more children over the next ten years, Destynee, 13, Autumn,9, and Justyce, 7.
She said to Closer Magazine, "I put it down to my pregnancies. I don't see why else the weight would go to my hips, although, I do eat lots."
She mentioned to The Daily Mail that she feels comfortable with her size, the older she gets. "In the past, I was self-conscious about my hips and tried milkshake diets, but they didn't work. As I got older, I learned to love my body and now I'm not afraid to show it off."
She added that people do stare and make comments about her shape, but she has learned to ignore the negativity.
'I don't want to get bigger, but I don't want to lose my curves. I look great. I hope I inspire women to think, "She's happy with her body and I can be too!"
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