Lolo Ferrari

Background Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, Ève Valois was raised in the resort town of La Baule on the Atlantic coast. She often talked about her unhappy childhood, with her father absent and her mother, Catherine Valois (née Ferrari), disliking her. As a teenager, she obtained a few modelling jobs.

In 1988, she married Éric Vigne, a former drug dealer 15 years her senior who had just been released from prison. She then started to work as a model with her husband as manager. She also worked as a prostitute, and her husband was arrested for being her pimp.

Breast enlargements Encouraged by Vigne, she underwent, beginning in 1990, numerous plastic surgery operations to create a bust (she was originally a 37-inch bust). She had 22 enlargements, which is a Guinness World Record. The Guinness Book of Records (2003) indicates each of her breasts weighed and contained three litres of saline.

She used her newly won publicity to obtain a regular role on the British Channel 4 television show Eurotrash. 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.

She was the subject of a 2005 film documentary, Dying to be Beautiful.

Death On the morning of 5 March 2000, at the age of 37, Ferrari was found dead, of undetermined causes, by her husband at her home in Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes département on the French Riviera.

When Channel 4 broadcast Ferrari's obituary on Eurotrash, it was transmitted with straight dubbing as a mark of respect (normally, Eurotrashs dubbing is exaggerated to emphasise the humour); it ended with a caption stating "Lola Ferrari 1970–2000", which was an error since her year of birth was actually 1963. In 2005, the station broadcast a documentary about her life, featuring interviews with her, her husband, her mother and her plastic surgeon.

Filmography Le King de ces Dames (1995) Big DD (1996) Camping Cosmos (1996) as Mme Vandeputte - la plantureuse épouse du gestionnaire du Camping Cosmos Double Airbags (1996) Planet Boobs (1996) Lolo Ferrari Special – The Biggest Tits in the World (1997) Mega Tits 6 (1998) Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999) as La fée Der Generalmanager oder How To Sell A Tit Wonder (Directed by Steffen Jürgens) (2006)

Discography Airbag Generation (1996)