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World's Fattest Man Marries

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Flatbed truck lugs him to the altar.

Most couples walk down the isle, but Manuel Uribe came in his bed. According to The Telegraph, Uribe, who has not left his bed in 6 years, wore a white silk shirt and had a sheet wrapped around his legs, while his custom-made bed, decked with flowers and gold-trimmed bows was wheeled up to the event hall on a flatbed truck. Uribe cried as notary declared him and long-time girlfriend Claudia Solis, 38, man and wife. In 2006, Uribe, a former mechanic, weighed in at 1,230 pounds and made the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s heaviest man. Since then, he has dropped 550 pounds and gained a wife. He didn’t eat a morsel of the 5-tier wedding cake, preferring to stick to his diet in hopes that his next claim to fame will be as the world’s biggest weight-loser.

Read it at The Daily Telegraph