Lolo Ferrari, born Eve Valois in February 9, 1963 and died in March 5, 2000, was the stage name of a French dancer, actress, and singer billed as "the woman with the largest breasts in the world" though their size was artificially achieved. She appeared in the French Guinness Book of World Records in 1996 and again in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1999. She married Eric Vigne, a man 15 years her senior.
Encouraged by her husband, Ferrari underwent numerous plastic surgery operations to create a 180 centimetres (71 in) silicone-enhanced bust (22 enlargements, a Guinness world record). The Guinness Book of Records says each of her breasts weighed 2.8 kilograms (6.2 lb) and contained three litres of saline. She had to wear a specially engineered brassiere, and as a result of her many surgeries she suffered from a number of medical afflictions and lived with a heavy regimen of drugs. Her brassiere measurements have been given by various sources as 58F 54G, and 54J (Miss Valois was originally a 37 inch bust). The breast implants themselves were reputed to be designed by an engineer who was involved with the design of the Boeing 747, according to a Channel 4 documentary, dying to Be Beautiful.
On the morning of March 5, 2000, one month after her 37th birthday, Ferrari was found dead at her home in Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera of undetermined causes. Originally, she was thought to have died of a drug overdose, but a further autopsy revealed that she had died from mechanically induced suffocation. Her widower was suspected of causing her death and was arrested, spent one year in prison, but was later released.
