When Esther was about 18 months old, she tipped the scales at 420 pounds.
By 16 she weighed 175lb; by the end of high school 190lb; by 30, 290lb and at her heaviest she pushed the scales at 333lb.
When first adopted in her eighth week of life and becoming part of Mary Lou Mooney's family, she tipped the scales at 3.5 pounds and was a ball of energy.
During her first campaign, she scaled back to part time at St . Vincents Medical Center in Jacksonville.
In her first two years, she gained 60 pounds, topping the scales at 180.
She liked to think about different length scales at an early age.
Men and women she may or may not recognize — movie stars, rappers, models — loom above them, magnified a thousand per cent, their eyes the size of swimming pools, their teeth cliff walls she could hide behind or possibly dwell in, like the Anasazi, chiselling toeholds so she might scale down at night to forage.
Men and women she may or may not recognize movie stars, rappers, models loom above them, magnified a thousand per cent, their eyes the size of swimming pools, their teeth cliff walls she could hide behind or possibly dwell in, like the Anasazi, chiselling toeholds so she might scale down at night to forage.
Growing up in Virginia, DiGiulian found her love for climbing when she began scaling walls at just 6 years old.
He tips the scales at 67 kilograms.
Taft tipped the scales at three hundred pounds.
