One of the world's fattest men has died at the age of 39. Ricky Naputi piled on the pounds thanks to a gut-busting diet of 10,000
calories a day. He grew so fat he was left bedridden in his home on the Pacific island of Guam
for 5 Years, being cared for around the clock by his
wife Cheryl.
Ricky was offered life-saving surgery and a TV crew from US network TLC who
followed him for three years as he battled to lose enough weight to travel
to a hospital in the US. But he ran out of time and died in November 2012 - before the footage of his
plight could be aired.
Ricky's story was finally told this week in a moving documentary that charted
his weight battle and his touching relationship with Cheryl. The pair were married for 10 years, but Ricky's size meant they could never
consummate the relationship.
Instead, his devoted spouse spent her days bathing and feeding him and even
helping him go to the toilet. In the show, Cheryl compares her role to "taking care of an overgrown baby".
In interviews Ricky, meanwhile, expresses his determination to live, if only
so he can go outside again. He told the TLC team: "I'm willing to try my best, my one goal and my one
goal only is to get my life back. "The last time I got out and enjoyed myself must have been years. "I miss feeling the sun on my face. Miss showering, feeling water run
down my body."
At the end of the special, paramedics are shown dashing to couple's home on
Guam after Ricky collapsed. They spent an hour attempting to resuscitate
him, before he was declared dead.
His cause of death was listed as morbid obesity.
Source: The Sun
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