Former World’s Fattest Man Poses Nude

Once named the world's fattest man, Paul Mason has nothing more to lose... Except extra skin that weighs almost as much as I do, and now his clothes. So now he's posing in the nude to draw attention to his plight.

The 52-year-old man from the U.K. weighed 980 pounds at his heaviest but lost 644 through a gastric bypass surgery that shrank his stomach to the size of an egg.

Mason's weight loss surgery was paid for through England's National Health Service, but the removal of his excess skin, an operation to the tune of $100,000, won't be covered until he has kept the weight off for two years.

In the meantime, he says, his condition is not only embarrassing but painful. That is why Mason has decided to shed his clothes for the camera.

"I want health professionals to have a look and think, 'It's about time we helped this chap,'" Mason said.

"Around my middle and on my legs the skin keeps splitting because of the weight of it.

"Once I get rid of the spare skin I also hope to be able to go swimming and cycling and join a gym, and find a girlfriend."

[NEW YORK DAILY NEWS]