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WOMAN VS FOOD
How blogger eats 8,000 calorie mega meals in MINUTES — but is still a size 10
YouTuber Kate Ovens scoffs high calorie dishes for thousands of fans as she takes on massive food eating challenges
WITH her healthy glow and slim size 10 figure, food blogger Kate Ovens looks like she could join the ranks of evangelical vegans and “clean eaters” on Instagram.
But the 24-year-old food fan is bucking the trend — and loves nothing more than chowing down on a monster 4,000 -calorie Full English breakfast.
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Kate has turned her talent for eating mammoth meals into a career.
The Sizzling Pubs platter challenge at Tilehurst, Berks, is the latest of 50 under her belt.
It took her just half an hour to scoff the meal, which is the equivalent to five regular fry-ups.
The 5ft 6in super eater, of Kennington, South London, says of her unlikely job: “When you think about someone who is able to eat massive meals you don’t think of someone my size.
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“That’s the part I like about it. I love the whole ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ thing.”
Kate, who weighs 9st 4lb, became the first woman to finish the Belly Buster Burrito challenge in 2016 — demolishing the 2ft meal in just eight minutes.
She also took less than an hour to eat an 8,000-calorie kebab — four times the recommended 2,000 daily calorie intake for a woman — and beat ten other competitors by eating five-and-a-half hot dogs in six minutes.
She says: “I don’t expect vegans to like what I do, but each to their own. I love my meat.
Kate Ovens conquers supersize full English breakfast
“I wish I had caught the health bug but I want my meat dripping, I want my ice cream and I want my burgers. I will never be that person who eats just vegetables and loves running.”
Growing up, Kate admits her monster appetite meant she struggled with her weight.
She says: “I was never fat, but I used to be a bit chubby. I was about a size 14/16.
“I started training for a marathon and the weight fell off gradually.
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“I got down to a size 10 when I was about 17 but my big appetite stayed.”
Despite her love of food, she fell into her job by “accident” — and because she was on a diet.
Kate says with a laugh: “I was dieting all the time and I was hungry so I was watching clips of the American TV show Man Vs Food.”
At the time Kate was in her final year at Newcastle University studying marketing and management.
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After spotting the Stateside Diner in the city was advertising a food challenge, she convinced her friends to join her in having a go.
The challenge consisted of finishing a whopping 24oz burger with onion rings, chips and milkshake.
Kate says: “I was the only one of my friends to finish in the 20-minute time limit and the only girl to finish.”
Her friends were so impressed they persuaded her to set up a Facebook page, Kate Ovens — and the before and after pictures she posted went viral.
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And some of her eating challenges have had nearly 700,000 views on YouTube.
Since graduating two years ago, Kate has turned her talent into a career — and is inundated with brands and restaurants vying to work with her.
Kate, who has racked up a combined social media following of 270,000, says: “I get so many requests I have to turn a lot down.”
Her challenges are a mixture of eating within a set time or trying to eat an entire mega meal. One of her favourites involved tackling a 58oz burger created by Hereford-based The Beefy Boys last year.
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She failed — having 10oz left of the 4,500 calorie burger after ten minutes — but says: “It tasted amazing. It was made up of 11 patties but I only managed to eat nine. I worked out I managed to eat 48oz, which is still good going.”
She triumphed scoffing a 5,000-calorie Yorkie Burrito, taking 55 minutes to consume FIVE roast dinners wrapped in a 20in Yorkshire pudding in York.
Kate averages a challenge once a month and says her success rate stands at 70 per cent.
She says: “Before a challenge I’ll only eat a banana or a yogurt. All my clothes have to be elasticated too because it’s more comfortable.”
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In August she demolished a 6.6lb lamb and chicken kebab the size of a pillow in Fulham, West London.
Dubbed “London’s biggest kebab”, it took her almost an hour to munch her way through the 8,000-calorie meal.
Kate says: “It was ginormous and it took me a long time to finish. I was trying to think myself hungry.”
Earlier this year it took her just 50 minutes to polish off a 3ft sausage roll, believed to be the largest made in Britain. With just 6in to go, she hit “the wall” before having to take a walk to “free up some room”.
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Kate says: “When I take a break, the plate has to be taken as far away as possible from me because even the smell can be a little bit daunting.
“I’ll sometimes just have to find somewhere to take a little breather.
“My other tactics are eating meat before things like bread because carbs expand in your stomach.
“And taking sips of water to help break down the food.”
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Her biggest disappointment is not being able to polish off a 27in pizza from Toni’s Pizzeria in Glasgow three years ago — because she came so close to finishing the meal.
She says: “I got down to just the crusts. I really tried but it defeated me.”
She also failed a 15-minute challenge to eat a 20in pizza in Northampton — having scoffed half, amounting to 3,000 calories.
The successful breakfast challenge contained double the recommended calorie intake for a woman — and would take more than six hours of non-stop running to burn off.
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Kate, who is planning to take on a Christmas-themed task next, says: “People probably think I live in the gym but I don’t. I try to exercise three times a week and do 10,000 steps a day but I’m no saint.
“I don’t actually eat that much on a day-to-day basis. I eat as healthily as I can. It’s all about balance.”
Kate has been single for eight months but she reveals her unique skill seems to be a real turn-on for men.
She says with a laugh: “I get about 50 marriage proposals a day.
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“I get a lot of men messaging me saying, ‘it’s nice to see a girl able to finish a meal’ or ‘you’re the perfect woman’ but I’m really not.
“I’m just a girl who really loves her food.”
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