World’s Fattest Woman Set Up GoFundMe

Thirty-eight years old woman tipped the scales at half a ton and was bed-bound for five years, until she had her home bulldozed to free her from her bed after suffering breathing difficulties.

Catrina Raiford was the former world's fattest woman who at her heaviest weighed 1,000lbs has lost half her body weight but she has been left with 140lbs of excess skin.

Catrina, from Florida, then embarked on a strict diet and a gastric bypass to lose more than 500lbs, reaching 448lbs in 2014.

However Catrina says she had always had problems with her weight, following years of sexual abuse as a child. She said she found comfort in sweet, sugary snacks and secret eating.

Now Catrina hopes to lose even more weight along with the 140lbs of excess skin she has been left with for which she has set up a GoFundMe to raise the $10,000 (£6,468) needed for operations to remove it.