Largest Hips In The World

Woman Sets Record For Largest Hips In The World

Meet Mikel Ruffinelli, the person with the largest hips in the world according to the World Record Academy. The woman weighs 420 pounds, she stands 4 feet and 5 inches tall, and last, but not least, her hips measure eight feet (100 inches) circumference! See how she deals with everyday chores and how she feels about her hips right here.

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We all remember Shakira’s famous chorus “Oh, my hips don’t lie [..]” and we also know that when it comes to hip-hop videos, the wider the hips on the women in them, the more views they get… Well, the hip-hop video scene better be on the look-out for Mikel Ruffinelli the woman who officially has the biggest hips in the whole wide world.

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39-year-old Mikel lives in L.A. and she has recently set the world record with her amazing big hips. Despite being relatively tall (5feet and 4 inches), and also, despite having a reasonable waist size (just 40 inches) somehow, all of the fatty tissue has concentrated around her waist making her curves more accentuated that anyone else’s.

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Basically, Mikel is the best example ever of an hourglass figure, and she’s absolutely proud of herself.

“Everywhere I go I get attention for my hips – both good and bad. Men don’t fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure.”

What does her husband have to say about it?

The woman with the world’s largest hips has been married to her husband, Reggie Brooks for a decade, and throughout these ten years of marriage, not once has her hubby complained about his plus-size-model wife.

I like to tell people all the time, I have a license to work with heavy equipment.

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Where did it all start?

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Mikel didn’t have weight problems in her early years. In her childhood and teenage years she she weighed at most 10stone. The weight unbalance began when she was 22 years old, after giving birth to her first child, a baby boy named Andrew, who is now 19 years old.

After Andrew (who was born from a previous relationship), came the couple’s daughters: Destynee – thirteen, Autumn – eight, and Justyce – seven. With each pregnancy, her hips kept on growing and growing till the amazing size of 2,54 meters (1inches/8 feet).

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Now, the Mikel eats an average of 3,000 calories per day, meaning that she gets a surplus of 500 more recommended for an average man. When it comes to favorite dishes, the woman says her favorite are Mexican dishes, but also chicken, seafood and cheese.

How does she manage in everyday life?

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Read more about Mikel and see more pictures of the woman with the largest hips on page 2:


Written with love and coolness by on January 24, 2013 in World's Biggest Things
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