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Size Zero Mom Trounces Big Boys in Eating Competition

Juliet Lee swears she never practices

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 13, 2009 1:14 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Juliet Lee only eats one meal a day—but sometimes it’s a really big meal. The 44-year-old, who weights in at 100 pounds, is the 11th ranked competitive eater in the world, but she swears she never practices. The talent comes entirely from her one-meal-a-day habit. “It’s natural,” she tells the Washington Post, “If I ever start training, they going to be really scared of me.”

Her competitors don’t buy that. “She’s lying,” says Tim “Gravy” Brown. “Everybody who’s semi-decent in this sport trains in some way.” That’s not the only beef some have with Lee. Some have questioned her eating ethics ever since she left sodden hamburger buns on the table in one competition. “They say I hide food in my bra,” she says, laughing. “They just don’t like to lose to a woman.”

Eric Badlands Brooker, 40, left, and Juliet Lee, 43, compete at the first-ever Elephants & Humans six-minute hot dog bun eating competition at Coney Island, July 3, 2009.
Eric "Badlands" Brooker, 40, left, and Juliet Lee, 43, compete at the first-ever Elephants & Humans six-minute hot dog bun eating competition at Coney Island, July 3, 2009.   (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)
Juliet Lee, 43, one of the three competitors at the first-ever Elephants & Humans six-minute hot dog bun eating competition poses at Nathan's Famous at Coney Island in Brooklyn, July 3, 2009.
Juliet Lee, 43, one of the three competitors at the first-ever Elephants & Humans six-minute hot dog bun eating competition poses at Nathan's Famous at Coney Island in Brooklyn, July 3, 2009.   (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)
Juliet Lee, 43, competes in the first Elephants & Humans six-minute hot dog bun eating competition, July 3, 2009.
Juliet Lee, 43, competes in the first Elephants & Humans six-minute hot dog bun eating competition, July 3, 2009.   (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)
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COMMENTS
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Kookey90
Oct 14, 2009 10:44 AM CDT
I'm with you - if anything she's got to be the most attractive competitor.
usualsuspects
Oct 14, 2009 2:23 AM CDT
"sport" lol.
riffran
Oct 13, 2009 9:36 AM CDT
to be quite honest...I will get upset over some other country starving, AFTER I make sure my family isn't

 
metabolism • cheating • competitive eating • eating contest • Juliet Lee

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