Tipping the scales at half a tonne, Juan Pedro Franco hasn't left his bed in six years - until now.
Dubbed the world's fattest man, the 32-year-old Mexican was taken to hospital for lifesaving medical treatment yesterday.
Special equipment was used to transfer Juan Pedro, who weighs 500kg, from his mother's house in Aguascalientes to a gastric bypass facility in Guadalajara.
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"I never knew what was happening to me," Juan Pedro said.