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700-pound man hopes to stand for wedding
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-11 09:46 MONTERREY, Mexico -- Manuel Uribe, who once weighed a half ton but has slimmed down to about 700 pounds, celebrates his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a simple wish for the coming year: to be able to stand on his own two feet to get married.
Interviewed at his home in northern Mexico, where he can still do little more than sit up on a bed, Uribe said more than two years of steady dieting have helped him drop about 550 pounds from his Guinness record weight of 1,235 pounds. He hopes Guinness representatives will confirm in July that he holds a second title: The world's greatest loser of weight. But Uribe is still unable to walk his fiancee, Claudia Solis, down the aisle. "It frustrates me a little, because it is not easy to get out," said Uribe, who has not been able to leave bed for the last six years. His most recent attempt to escape the house -- to attend Solis' 38th birthday party in March -- fell through when a flatbed tow truck brought to transport his reinforced bed got caught beneath an underpass. |
