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In March 1978, Minnoch weighed 12 times his 110 lb (50 kilograms; 8 stone) wife, [15] breaking the record for the greatest weight disparity between a married couple. [22] Minnoch and McArdle divorced in 1980 [23] and he married Shirley Ann Griffen in 1982. [7] He fathered two sons, [24] John and Jason. [1]
18 sie 2022 · Despite his extreme size, and his yo-yo dieting, Jon Brower Minnoch’s life was relatively normal. In 1978, when he broke the record for highest weight, he married a woman named Jeannette and broke another record – the world record for the greatest difference in weight between a married couple.
He was married to his 110-lb wife Jeannette Minnoch till his death. The couple had two children. With his underlying condition of massive generalized edema being incurable, the medical professionals stopped treating Minnoch and he died 23 months later in September 1983, at the age of 41.
7 kwi 2024 · When he lost his father to a heart attack in 1962, Minnoch was just under 400 lbs. Minnoch married his first wife the following year, and by the end of 1963, he weighed 700 lbs.
Enter the extraordinary story of Jon Brower Minnoch, a man whose record-breaking weight, rather than symbolizing triumph, serves as cautionary tale. At his heaviest, Jon Brower Minnoch weighed an astonishing 1,400 pounds in 1978, though some estimates suggest he may have been even heavier.
25 sie 2022 · Minnoch may have been — and at this point, remains — the world's heaviest-ever human being, but he was no freak. He was a normal man in most ways. The South Coast Herald notes that he had recently married before his stay at University Hospital, and would have two children.
20 sie 2024 · On June 8, 1963, when Jon was 21 years old, he married his first wife, 18-year-old Carolyn Jean McArdle, who preferred to go by her middle name. Jon and Jean went on to have two sons, John and Jason, and the family was well liked among their neighbors, who described them as friendly.
