A woman who holds the record for having an ‘eight foot’ waist, says “men don’t fancy skinny girls” and she’s happy as she is.

Mikel Ruffinelli appeared on the TLC documentary World’s Biggest Hips and said: “I rather be this size and happy, with me loving me, than to be skinny, that size, and be unhappy.”

Her husband, Reggie, loves his wife at the size she is and agrees with her jokingly saying: “I tell people all the time: I have a license to work with heavy equipment.”

Mikel said that she believes: “Men don’t fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure. I think it’s very feminine to have curves. It makes us womanly, it makes us beautiful.”

The four women who appear in the show were crowned winners of the world’s widest hips – with a combined circumference of a whopping 27ft.

Voluptuous ladies Mikel, Denise, Marlena and Claudia, say they couldn’t be happier with their sizeable saddlebags, despite their daily struggles to get about.

Curvesome Mikel Ruffinelli, 42, who currently holds the world record for the biggest hips, measures in at a well-rounded eight foot.
The mum-of-four, from Los Angeles, loves her womanly shape and husband Reggie worships her statuesque form.

Proud Mikel said: “I’m extreme, I have an extreme physique. I love my curves, I love my hips and I love my assets.”

But with the visual perks come the physical drawbacks and Mikel is forced to side-shuffle around her house to avoid getting stuck in corridors and even struggles to fit in the shower. (Excerpts taken from a Natalie Corner and Sarah Ridley article in the UK Mirror)