DALLAS, TX – Dionne Washington claims to have the biggest butt in the world.
Dionne Washington can’t imagine anything worse than dieting. Her
massive bottom is 5ft 3ins across and weighs a whopping 120 pounds –
about the same as Lindsay Lohan holding twenty pounds of coke.
Dionne loves her butt.
“I am literally sitting on a fortune,” says Dionne, 35. “My butt must
be the widest in the world and it already earns me over $180,000 a year.
I used to hate it, but now it’s my fave feature.”
She knows how much her bottom weighs because four men lifted her up
and flopped it down on a set of industrial scales while holding up the
rest of her. At its widest point, it’s 14ft 9ins around, and she’s on a
mission to make it even bigger.
Dionne’s total weight is 425 lbs and at 5ft 4ins tall her Body Mass
Index is 85. That’s four times more than an average woman and it puts
her at risk of high cholesterol, diabetes and heart problems.
“I’m not concerned,” she insists. “I love my body and wouldn’t change a thing.”
However, Amanda Thornton of Atlanta has something to say about Dionne’s claim for biggest butt. Thornton says width is not the criterion for a big butt. She claims Dionne's butt is really just wide hips. She claims that cheek for cheek she has the largest posterior.
Amanda Thornton
And Kim Kardashian – well, she’s not even in the running.
Dionne says nearly everything she eats goes to her bottom and to
maintain its huge size she consumes a shocking 9,000 calories a day –
more than four times the recommended intake for women.
“The more I eat the bigger this beauty gets,” says Dionne.
She hasn’t always been so proud of her butt, though. Growing up in
Texas, she says it was the bane of her life. A skinny child, her weight
ballooned when she hit puberty.
“Suddenly I went from size 12 jeans to a size 18, then 20 then 22,
while on top I remained a size 14. Kids at school can be so cruel,
calling me Big Butt Bertha, Butt Head and Bottom Feeder. I’d sit at the
back of class and wait until everyone else left the room because my butt
often got stuck in the chair.
“I could barely run, so PE was a nightmare. I’d get my mother to
write notes saying I had cramps or sore knees. I tried wearing Spanx to
contain my bottom but they didn’t work. I went to the prom by myself and
left school feeling depressed, lacking confidence and hating my body,”
she recalls.
Dionne tried endless diets, including drinking just diet shakes, the cabbage soup diet and WeightWatchers. But nothing worked.
“My mother Carol took me to see the doctor and he said I needed to
diet and exercise more. Mom told me some of my cousins had big bottoms
and perhaps it was genetic. All I did was hide under big dresses and
comfort-eat.”
Studying business administration at a local college, Dionne was
miserable. “I kept my head down and tried to make myself invisible but
that was hard. I was still a virgin and felt I’d never find someone who
liked me for being me,” she says.
But at 19 one of the guys from class asked her out.
“It was the first time anyone had shown real interest. The date was
lovely and we ended up having sex. Then I discovered later he’d done it
for a bet with the other guys in my class. I was devastated and lost
even more confidence.”
Dionne started work at a law firm. “It was hard as my behind was
getting wider as was my appetite. I couldn’t fit into the office chairs.
I hated it.
“Then a doctor told me I could diet but the weight probably wouldn’t
shift. I could have liposuction but it would take multiple surgeries
then I’d need more to fix the hanging skin. It would cost more than
$50,000.”
Earning just $28,000 a year, Dionne was devastated. “I tried to get
new jobs but the prettier, smaller girls always beat me even though I
was more qualified. I knew it was because of my size,” she says.
Then her second boyfriend, who she met in 2008, made her realize she
should love her bottom. After the second date he admitted he was
attracted to very large women.
“He was throwing all these phrases at me I didn’t understand. He
explained he was a ‘fat admirer’ and loved large women and said that in
his books I was a BBW – a Big, Beautiful Woman,” she says.
“That night he showed me forums on the internet dedicated to big
girls. Some weighed up to 400 pounds. There were super-sized girls in
lingerie proudly flashing their flab. Suddenly my world changed. I’d
discovered a place where women like me were not only accepted, but
adored.”
She made friends with other big girls who were sure her wide bottom
would be a hit. So in February 2008, she decided to take the plunge and
post some pictures online.
“I weighed 300 pounds and was sick of my boring life. I’d just come
out of another failed relationship so I decided to take control,” she
says.
“I had a girlfriend take some pictures of me and posted them on a
forum. Within 48 hours I was inundated with emails from fans around the
world wanting to know if they could buy my pictures.”
Dionne admits she was scared and thrilled at the same time.
“But I decided to go for it. I started selling pictures and videos of
me and my butt online. I offered special membership rates of up to $40 a
month and would send people two picture sets of up to 30 images. For
extra they’d get a video and I charged even more for instant message
chats.”
Dionne has built up her empire and now has more than 15,000 fans. Her
bottom has paid for an apartment, a big car (with extra-large seats),
holidays, designer clothes and gifts for her friends.
However, having the world’s widest butt doesn’t come without its problems.
She can’t sit on normal chairs or stools – she takes up a
two-seater sofa – so she does a lot of her computer work in bed. She
has a supersized stool, but even with that her bottom sticks out 8ins at
the back and 9ins each side.
Dionne also requires extra-wide changing rooms in shops.
“Sometimes I can’t try on clothes as I literally can’t fit,” she
says. “I need toilets with seats for big people and I get stuck in bath
tubs. I get a lot of clothes made to order in size 36-40, especially my
pants,” she says.
“I hate shopping in supermarket aisles that have cans and displays
sticking out as I end up knocking them over. At restaurants I have to
sit in a booth for three people and push the table to the other side. I
don’t use buses – I have to turn sideways just to get through the door.”
She has a serious fear of getting stuck in the toilet on a train or plane.
“One time I got stuck and the flight attendant had to pull me out. I
laugh now but it makes you realize the seats need to be bigger for
us large girls.”
Dionne’s parents are both dead but she has an aunt who thinks she is
nuts. On the other hand, her friends are very supportive. “They tell me
I’m amazing and a real inspiration,” she says.
Dionne admits she suffers from back pain but claims it’s minimal
because the heavier she gets, her body will change to handle the extra
pounds.
“I am a Jimmy Choo fan but I can’t wear heels. My doctor said my butt
wouldn’t allow me to balance properly and sometimes after a long day I
lose a little sensation in my feet,” she says.
She gets endless marriage proposals from fans but turns them all down.
“I have joined a few dating sites and hope to find a guy who likes me for my brains who I can marry and have kids with.
“I’ve had some eggs frozen in case I meet Mr Perfect later in life so I can still have a baby.”
Dionne doesn’t want to take on Susanne Eman or Donna Simpson for
fattest of the world title. She’s happy with the biggest butt.
Besides, nobody is going to beat Donna Simpson’s stomach:
You can read about Donna…
HERE.
For now, the woman with the world’s widest butt, has no plans to stop
modelling or change her lifestyle. “I earn tens of thousands, I have
thousands of fans and those kids at college who teased me are all in
dead-end jobs.
She says: “I never ask people if my butt looks big in this. I ask them if it’s big enough… the bigger the better. And now, for the biggest butt of all: DIONNE WASHINGTON.
