Manuel Uribe, a Mexican who weighs over 300Kg and hasn’t left his bed in six years, married his long-time girlfriend Claudia Solis in northern Mexico, on Sunday.

Mr Uribe (43), wed Hairdresser, Claudia Solis (38), fulfilling a birthday wish for the Mexican who has already managed to lose an enormous 230kg over the past 12 months, after gaining the Guinness World Record of “World’s heaviest man” back in 2007. Since then, he has refused gastric-band surgery and instead has been following the Zone diet (a strict formula of carbohydrates, proteins and fats), with the help of his girlfriend and Mexican nutritionists.

Despite his impressive weight loss, Mr Uribe remains confined to his bed, and so a flatbed truck was brought in to transport his specially-reinforced bed decorated with a canopy, flowers and gold-trimmed bows to the wedding at a local event hall.

Mr Uribe wore a white silk shirt with a sheet wrapped around his legs and Miss Solis wore a strapless ivory satin dress, a tiara and hot-pink lipstick. Both of them smiled and waved for a swarm of international photographers.

As the couple were declared husband and wife, at the civil ceremony attended by more than 400 guests, Mr Uribe broke into tears. Then, instead of the traditional first dance as newlyweds, the couple held hands and swayed to a romantic ballad.

A popular local band played accordion-heavy Norteño music at the reception, which featured a “low-calorie” banquet of meat, creamed mushrooms and buttered vegetables.

Mr Uribe’s mother, Orquedia Garza, told the Associated Press news agency that the groom did not eat any of the five-tiered wedding cake.

He didn’t break his diet, his doctors are here and they are watching him very closely.

After announcing his engagement, Mr Uribe had said it was his birthday wish to marry Miss Solis:

We are in love, and this year my birthday wish is to be able to stand when we get married.

We are a couple. We have sex, and in the eyes of God we are already married.

The wedding was filmed by the Discovery Channel for an upcoming documentary about the former car parts dealer.

Mr Uribe told reporters:

I’m very happy this is a really special day for me. God has permitted this day to arrive and for a beautiful woman like Claudia to marry me. We will start a new adventure together.

And Ms Solis has said of her new husband:

I bathe him every day, and we get along very well.

So guys, if ever you think you’re not good looking enough, or you feel jealous of guys with model looks or perfect physiques, then always remember that if the ‘World’s fattest man’ can find love, so can you.

Fortunately, for men, looks have little to do with seduction, and it doesn’t matter if you’re not an Adonis. You show your personality; because it’s not what you look like. It’s what you do – Always.

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Posted by Jonathan in Miscellaneous, Philosophy

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