The fattest human EVER recorded was Robert Hughes. Born in 1926 died in 1958
He weighed in at 1,071 pounds!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...259 8f46de63b
So...I would say generally speaking that people are fatter these days. But there have been fatter people in history.
But that lady in that pic that was supposed to represent fattest in 1922 was just a regular old porker.
It was a Barnum and Bailey circus ad for their sideshows claiming she was the "Biggest Woman In The World" And that pic was clipped to NOT show that she is standing next to the "Smallest Person In The World...Major Mite"
Not really representative of the fattest people of that era.
Here is that pic without the editing:
