From Fat to Thin

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2004 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Frances Kuffel weighed more than 300 pounds at her peak.

Frances Before

In June 1997, Frances Kuffel weighed 338 pounds at 5'8". The 41-year-old literary agent felt that her three wishes in life—to be slender, to publish her own book, and to fall in love—were beyond her reach.

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