Woman with world's largest bottom which is 8ft around says being fat is fabulous

Mikel Ruffinelli is the owner of the world's biggest bottom, which measures 8ft around. She says being big is beautiful and thinks that rather than slimming to fit in with society, society needs to fit in with her. She is one of four women to appear on a new documentary that looks at the lifestyles of the women with the world's biggest bottoms. Among them is Claudia Floraunce, a plus-size model from Austria who says the criteria for beauty need to be redefined.

I love my shape and I see no reason to diet because I don’t have health problems. Men don’t fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure.'

Now she is to appear on a new documentary, World's Biggest Hips, alongside three other women who boast supersized rear ends.

Among them is Austrian Claudia Floraunce, 40, who also lives in Los Angeles and tips the scales at 23st, and Las Vegas native, Denise Souder, a 56-year-old grandmother-of-two with 74-inch hips - and who, like Mrs Ruffinelli, has turned her 'curves' into cold, hard cash.

'Growing up, I was the chubby girl,' explains Mrs Souder. 'I was always the chubbiest girl in the class but I never let it stop me from doing whatever I wanted to do.

'There are challenges - I can't get on a rollercoaster. You learn to get around your hips, you learn to embrace your hips, you learn to shop for your hips. 

'If someone wants to make a comment about my hips or my size, I don't care what your opinion is.'

Meet the women with the biggest hips in the WORLD

Curvy and proud: Mrs Ruffinelli says men don't want slim girls and like an hourglass shape like hers instead

'I love my shape and I see no reason to diet because I don’t have health problems. Men don’t fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure.'

Now she is to appear on a new documentary, World's Biggest Hips, alongside three other women who boast supersized rear ends.

Among them is Austrian Claudia Floraunce, 40, who also lives in Los Angeles and tips the scales at 23st, and Las Vegas native, Denise Souder, a 56-year-old grandmother-of-two with 74-inch hips - and who, like Mrs Ruffinelli, has turned her 'curves' into cold, hard cash.