Who is the ‘world’s fattest man’ Paul Mason?

Paul Jonathan Mason was born in 1960 in Ipswich, England. He is the world’s former heaviest men, weighing in at 70 stone – 444.5kg – at his peak. He is the heaviest recorded person from the United Kingdom.

Paul began binge eating in his twenties as a form of emotional detachment from issues that started in his childhood, including child abuse. After numerous attempts to get his weight back on track, he revealed that he gained an extra 20 pounds during the coronavirus lockdown.