A giant, 16-pound baby made headlines when he was born in 1983. Now, as a 35-year-old man, he’s still big.
Kevin Robert Clark was born at 16 pounds, 6 ounces in Toms River, New Jersey, triggering a media frenzy and a torrent of headlines that said he was the largest baby born in the state, reported the New York Post.
Clark told the New York Post last month that he is now 6 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs about 300 pounds.
‘‘He’s a real bruiser,’' said his mother in a 35-year-old New York Times article, which said he was born healthy. In the report, his parents said they were both large babies upon delivery.
“Walking down the street, people are constantly stopping ... asking how tall I am,” Clark recently told Inside Edition, which reported that he can’t fit into most doors, shower heads are too short for him, and he can’t fit inside many cars.
“There isn’t a day that goes by when someone doesn’t ask me how tall I am. I like to joke that I’m 5-foot-21. When people ask if I play basketball, I ask them if they play miniature golf,” he told the Post.
When he was in school, Clark said he didn’t play sports despite pressure from coaches. Later, he joined the U.S. Air Force and became a military police officer in Texas.
