Britain’s fattest man Carl Thompson died today, just a month after pleading for help to try and change the 10,000 calories-a-day diet he was warned would kill him.
Carl Thompson, just 33, weighed 65-stone, was found dead inside his flat in Dover, Kent, by police this morning and it took several hours to remove his body. He had been confined to his home in Dover, Kent, for more than a year, relying on NHS carers to bathe him and feed him.
Mr Thompson shot to fame earlier this year when he appeared on ITV’s This Morning begging for help to lose weight, after being bedbound for more than a year. Mr Thompson said that he was desperate to change his lifestyle after being warned by doctors that his ill health would kill him.
Mr Thompson attributed most of his weight gain to the death of his mother, he admitted that he had always ‘loved’ food.
‘I was only about three or four and no one knew why I did it. I would just eat anything out of the cupboards,’ he said.
When his mother died of a brain tumour in 2012, he turned to unhealthy food as a means of coping with his grief.
His weight soon doubled from 30stone to 65, leaving him unable to work.
Mr Thompson spent the last few years in and out of hospital, where he was treated for a range of ailments.