In 2008, Mayra Rosales faced capital murder charges after admitting to crushing her 2-year-old nephew by rolling over on him with her 1,034-pound frame.
But it was an over sized lie meant to save her sister, Jaime Lee Rosales, who actually struck the young boy on the head.
“I was dying,” Rosales told KTRK. “I don’t know if you had seen pictures before you could see it in my face. I had given up in life. I was alive but not living a life.”
Through a combination of diet and bariatric surgery, Rosales dropped more than 800 pounds, she told the Houston TV station.
Rosales now weighs 200 pounds and plans to lose 30 more.
