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Lolo Ferrari

Lolo Ferrari in front of the poster of Mother Courage and Her Children in the summer of 1995 during the making of the movie Camping Cosmos.
Birthdate	February 9, 1963(1963-02-09)
Birth location	Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Spouse(s)	Eric Vigne (1988 - 2000)
Date of death	March 5, 2000 (aged 37)
Hair colour	blonde (natural)
Ethnicity	French
Alias(es)	Eve Valois (birth name)
No. of films	Camping Cosmos
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Lolo Ferrari, born Eve Valois^[1] (February 9, 1963(1963-02-09)^[2] – 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"^[3][4] 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.

Background

Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, she was raised in the resort town of La Baule. As a teenager, she obtained a few modelling jobs. In 1988, she married Eric Vigne, a man 15 years her senior.

Breast enlargements

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).^[5] 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.^[6] Her brassiere measurements have been given by various sources as 58F,^[7] 54G,^[8] and 54J^[6] (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.

Career

Adopting the stage name "Lolo", from a French slang word for breasts, along with "Ferrari" as a last name, she made a few pornographic films. Use of the Ferrari name (which she justified since it was her maternal grandfather's name) led to lengthy trademark infringement court battles with the Italian Ferrari automobile company when she tried to market a line of underwear called Ferrari Underwear and a Lolo Ferrari doll. In 1995, she caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival with the presentation of the movie Camping Cosmos by Jan Bucquoy and producer Francis De Smet during a boxmatch which was a remake of the boxing match in Camping Cosmos between the European champion and the former opponent of Cassius Clay (Jean-Pierre Coopman).^[9]

She used the publicity surrounding her appearance to obtain a regular role on the British Channel 4 television show Eurotrash. Ironically, when Channel 4 broadcast her obituary, it was transmitted with straight dubbing as a mark of respect (Eurotrash's dubbing is normally campy, often playing it for laughs to get round the censorship regulations). The media hype led to appearances on other European shows and work in cabaret shows doing a song and striptease act. Hoping to launch a pop music career, she recorded two singles, titled "Airbag Generation" and "Set Me Free", as well as two more singles, a Euro disco cabaret song called "Dance Dance Dance", and a cover of Thelma Houston's Euro disco hit, "Don't Leave Me This Way". Neither of the latter two songs was given a commercial release. However, Ferrari retained a cult-like following.

Lolo Ferrari posing in evening dress.

Death

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 département 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.^[10]

Filmography

• Big DD (1996)
• Camping Cosmos (1996)
• Double Airbags (1996)
• Planet Boobs (1996)
• Lolo Ferrari Special - The Biggest Tits In The World (1997)
• Mega Tits 6 (1998)
• Le King de ces Dames (1999)
• Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)
• Der Generalmanager oder How To Sell A Tit Wonder (Directed by Steffen Jürgens (2006)

References

External links

• Collection of newspaper articles about the life and death of Lolo Ferrari, as well as the legal aftermath
• Site of the movie Camping Cosmos