At the time, the title was one that she and her ex-husband Alex held in high regard.“Alex encouraged me to eat whatever I wanted. He would make huge meals of turkey and roast potatoes and pile it on my plate,” Potter said of the man she married on Valentine’s Day in 2003, less than one year after meeting him online. “Because he loved my size, I set a goal to reach [700 pounds], to make sure I was even bigger for him,
Speaking with the Mirror, Potter explains that Alex was fond of bigger women and enjoyed stuffing her: “He made spaghetti and French bread for me. He would bring home pudding and feed it to me. It was very intimate. It was a very loving thing.”