To her friends and family, Rosalie was a woman of great beauty and digity. Even though Rosalie spent the last year and a half confined to her home because of declining health, she was still able to touch others that were in ill health. When her problems started years ago, she developed an addiction to food. At one time, she was eating close to 10,000 calories a day. At one point, her weight topped 1200 pounds. Rosalie was dubbed, "the world's heaviest woman alive" by the Guinness Book of Records. Rosarie got so large, she couldn't get out of bed for 10 years. It was hard," said her husband Robert Bradford. Until a phone call from fitness guru Richard Simmons changed their lives. He convinced her that she could lose weight and she did. Rosalie was awarded again from The Guinness Book for dropping seven hundred pounds. In 1987 she was 1050 pounds. She lost 736 pounds by September 1992. At her largest, Rosalie was 8 feet wide and took 90 minutes to bathe.
Rosalie passed away Wednesday November 29, 2006 at a hospital in Lakeland Florida, 10 miles from her Auburndale home in Central Florida at 63 years old.
∼Rosalie Bradford held records for being the world's heaviest woman and for losing the most weight.
She died at a hospital in Lakeland, Florida. She lived in Central Florida, in Auburndale.
According to the 1994 Guiness Book of World Records, her highest was was recorded as 1,050 pounds in January 1987. She lost 736 pounds, down to 314 pounds in 1992, according to the book.
Her immediate cause of death was not known.
At one point, Ms. Bradford attempted suicide by overdose, but her weight served to only dilute the medication. She slept for two days. A friend contacted Richard Simmons on her behalf and he worked with her to get her weight under control.
She is survived by her husband and one son.
Rosalie passed away Wednesday November 29, 2006 at a hospital in Lakeland Florida, 10 miles from her Auburndale home in Central Florida at 63 years old.
∼Rosalie Bradford held records for being the world's heaviest woman and for losing the most weight.
She died at a hospital in Lakeland, Florida. She lived in Central Florida, in Auburndale.
According to the 1994 Guiness Book of World Records, her highest was was recorded as 1,050 pounds in January 1987. She lost 736 pounds, down to 314 pounds in 1992, according to the book.
Her immediate cause of death was not known.
At one point, Ms. Bradford attempted suicide by overdose, but her weight served to only dilute the medication. She slept for two days. A friend contacted Richard Simmons on her behalf and he worked with her to get her weight under control.
She is survived by her husband and one son.
To her friends and family, Rosalie was a woman of great beauty and digity. Even though Rosalie spent the last year and a half confined to her home because of declining health, she was still able to touch others that were in ill health. When her problems started years ago, she developed an addiction to food. At one time, she was eating close to 10,000 calories a day. At one point, her weight topped 1200 pounds. Rosalie was dubbed, "the world's heaviest woman alive" by the Guinness Book of Records. Rosarie got so large, she couldn't get out of bed for 10 years. It was hard," said her husband Robert Bradford. Until a phone call from fitness guru Richard Simmons changed their lives. He convinced her that she could lose weight and she did. Rosalie was awarded again from The Guinness Book for dropping seven hundred pounds. In 1987 she was 1050 pounds. She lost 736 pounds by September 1992. At her largest, Rosalie was 8 feet wide and took 90 minutes to bathe.
Rosalie passed away Wednesday November 29, 2006 at a hospital in Lakeland Florida, 10 miles from her Auburndale home in Central Florida at 63 years old.
∼Rosalie Bradford held records for being the world's heaviest woman and for losing the most weight.
She died at a hospital in Lakeland, Florida. She lived in Central Florida, in Auburndale.
According to the 1994 Guiness Book of World Records, her highest was was recorded as 1,050 pounds in January 1987. She lost 736 pounds, down to 314 pounds in 1992, according to the book.
Her immediate cause of death was not known.
At one point, Ms. Bradford attempted suicide by overdose, but her weight served to only dilute the medication. She slept for two days. A friend contacted Richard Simmons on her behalf and he worked with her to get her weight under control.
She is survived by her husband and one son.
Rosalie passed away Wednesday November 29, 2006 at a hospital in Lakeland Florida, 10 miles from her Auburndale home in Central Florida at 63 years old.
∼Rosalie Bradford held records for being the world's heaviest woman and for losing the most weight.
She died at a hospital in Lakeland, Florida. She lived in Central Florida, in Auburndale.
According to the 1994 Guiness Book of World Records, her highest was was recorded as 1,050 pounds in January 1987. She lost 736 pounds, down to 314 pounds in 1992, according to the book.
Her immediate cause of death was not known.
At one point, Ms. Bradford attempted suicide by overdose, but her weight served to only dilute the medication. She slept for two days. A friend contacted Richard Simmons on her behalf and he worked with her to get her weight under control.
She is survived by her husband and one son.
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