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A 65 stone lady who must be lifted out of her home in a titan net has promised to get thinner.

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Marie Bowman, who measured 65 stone, must be lifted out of the window of her condo in Harlem, New York, with a crane after fire fighters acknowledged she would not fit through the entryway.  Marie, 70, was both damaged and embarrassed by the experience, however in clinic she told the New York Post that she is resolved to lose some weight.  'I had become too enormous. What's more, that was alarming, on the grounds that you don't think, not even once, that I wouldn't have the capacity to overcome my entryway,' she said.  'This is my life, not a show. I need to live. I'm here in the clinic on the grounds that I need to live.'  Marie last left her flat in 2014, yet from that point forward she expanded in size because of her misery from lymphedema, a sickness which causes liquid to develop in cells and reasons great swelling.  Carers cared for her, however a little while later she lost the capacity to walk and turned out to be too ex

Mother and daughter combined weigh 43 stone and receive £33,600 in benefits

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With a combined weight of a reported 43 stone, a mother and daughter receive an estimated £33,600 in benefits and are ‘fat and happy.’ Janice Manzur, 44, and her daughter Amber, 25, do not work, use mobility scooters and live in modified homes in Kirkcaldy, Fife. The women’s diet involves regularly eating unhealthy foods such as ready meals, burgers, fish and chips and sweets. Janice Manzur, 44, and her daughter, Amber, 25 (Picture: Medavia) Ms Manzur told the Sun: ‘I’d rather my daughter live life on benefits being fat and happy than depressed and thin. ‘I’ll never encourage her to diet as it made me so unhappy. ‘Amber has never stepped foot in the gym and never will.’ In addition to her scooter, Janice has a wheelchair accessible Fiat Qubo car worth approximately £15,000. Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum told MailOnline: ‘I think it’s a total exploitation of the benefits system, I’m at a loss for words. ‘There must be a