The world’s heaviest woman has lost a staggering 600lbs in the five years since she shot to fame as the ‘Half-Ton Killer’.
She made headlines in 2008 after being accused and then found not guilty of murdering her nephew with her own 1,000-pound body, and now Mayra Rosales, 32, has embarked on a grueling journey to save her own life by losing weight.
In TLC’s upcoming special Half Ton Killer: Transformed, Mayra’s astonishing story is being brought to light as she reveals how she has changed since the murder trial that rocked her life.
In a trailer for the episode, which airs on December 4, Mayra – who weighed a shocking 1,200lbs at her heaviest point – is wheeled out of her home after construction workers break a hole in the wall to get her out.
They haul her body onto a stretcher and into a U-Haul, since she is too big to fit into an ambulance. ‘At this point, if things don’t change, I’m going to die,’ she says.
According to a press release, she has indeed managed to shed ‘an astounding amount of weight’ thanks to surgeries, physical therapy, rehabilitation and huge changes to her diet.
But with her new 400-pound body, she must learn to carry out normal activities she has never been exposed to, like grocery shopping and job hunting.
Last year, TLC aired a TV special about Mayra’s murder trial and acquittal, in which she was accused of smothering her two-year-old nephew Eliseo to death by falling on him with her 1,000 body.
This upcoming episode will be a follow-up revealing how her life has changed since then.
Even though she confessed in 2008, Mayra was acquitted of her nephew’s murder in 2011 after evidence concluded that the boy had multiple injuries to his skull that were not indicative of being smothered.
‘I thought I was dying anyway so I decided to admit that I’d done it to protect my sister because I love her’
At the time, her lawyer Sergio Valdez told the court: ‘It would have required her to have to swing her arm to strike the child on the head but she could never move her arm in that manner.’
Mayra then testified that she witnessed her sister Jaime using a brush to hit her son Eliseo repeatedly on his arms, legs and head.
‘We were all trying to cover for my sister,’ she testified from her bed, to which she was confined because of her weight.
