Enormous 16-Pound Baby Made Headlines In 1983, Now He’s Fully Grown And Still Renowned For His Size

Feb 27, 2020 by apost team

In 1983, then 24-year-old Patricia Clark gave birth to her second child in the maternity ward of Community Memorial Hospital in Toms River, New Jersey. Big babies seemed to run in her family, so she was expecting a decent-sized newborn. To everyone's surprise, Kevin Robert Clark weighed in at slightly more than 16 pounds at birth.

Kevin's parents were worried about the baby's health since he was double the normal size of a newborn, but doctors checked him out and reassured them he was perfectly healthy. His parents struggled a bit with the fact he didn't fit into his crib or his baby clothes. Further details of the incredible birth are noted here in an archived report in The New York Times.

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Kevin started out big and kept getting bigger. When he began junior high, he was already 6 feet 5 inches tall. Now, at age 37, he stands 6 feet 9 inches tall and weighs around 300 pounds, according to a 2019 story from the New York Post.

“A challenge in high school and adult life was finding clothes and shoes that fit — I could never shop off the rack,” Kevin said in a 2019 interview. “As a teenager, I grew so quickly I always needed new clothes.”

Kevin likes to make jokes about his size, which has turned heads and attracted stares his entire life. He tells people he's 5 feet 21 inches tall, and when they ask if he plays basketball, he asks if they play miniature golf.

“There was always an expectation that I would play basketball because I was so tall,” Kevin explained in a 2019 interview. “I had a conversation with my high school health teacher, who was also a coach and he said, ‘If you want to pass health class, you’re gonna play basketball.’”

Kevin added, “He said it in jest but there was truth to it. It was a small school and they needed me to play. But it was never my passion, and I wasn’t actually good at it.”

Instead of going into basketball or football like everyone expected, Kevin joined the Air Force and then became a military policeman in Texas for a time before returning to school to get his MBA. He currently resides with his 6-foot-tall wife, Jenna, and a Great Dane, as reported here at the New York Post. He enjoys hunting and fishing.

It turns out that there are some benefits to being super tall — beyond being a coach’s first pick for the basketball season.

“There’s a natural tendency for people to think that because you’re tall, you’re in charge. I always say, ‘Everyone looks up to me,’” Kevin explained.

“I was a police officer for a while and everyone instantly would ask me questions, like I was in charge. I’d be in the same uniform as them, sometimes with less stripes,” he added. “Conversely, though, I was never able to hide in a crowd.”

Typically, a newborn full-term baby weighs between five pounds eight ounces and eight pounds thirteen ounces, according to KidsHealth.org.

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