For the fifth banquet, the sultan himself comes to judge. Roxxana stands at the table with her left hand gripping the sandstone side rail and a stuffed aubergine in her right, and at 720 lb she needs the rail. Her belly is vast and round, her thighs spread, her chest broad under a halter that is covered in strained gold coins. Idris announces stuffed aubergines, buttered couscous and sweet cheese on an engraved tray, with melted butter running between the grains.
Nima feeds her sweet cheese from a spoon, her slim hand and forearm in the frame, while Roxxana keeps hold of the rail. A victory bite, she says, before His Majesty judges. Her belly swells beneath her right palm with each heavy swallow. Three measuring cords are knotted end to end across a brass tray and still fall short, and one end slips onto the stone floor.
The sultan, tall and broad-shouldered in a plum kaftan with a trimmed black beard, takes in the table and the woman at it. He was told seven banquets, he says, not seven expanding provinces. He is delighted, and he does not hide it.
In the western colonnade the next day, Roxxana walks along a curved sandstone rail in profile, a cheese pastry in her right hand. The sway in her hips is pronounced now, and her belly leads the way past a narrow cedar doorway. Perhaps your doorway should stand a little straighter, she says.
Qasim has measured the doorway. The doorway, he reports, requests another measurement. A cord is stretched across the opening with both extension knots lying beyond the jambs, its loose end swinging against the cedar. Roxxana takes two slow, rail-guided steps, turns her back to the camera and looks over her shoulder: a soft, wide, golden figure that fills the mirror bay from side to side.
Roxxana“A victory bite before His Majesty judges.”
Sultan Nadhem“I was told seven banquets, not seven expanding provinces.”
Qasim“I measured the doorway. The doorway requests another measurement.”
Her outfit at 720 lb: The halter is whole but stretched, its coins spread apart over a large bust, and the bottoms are a narrow band under a vast belly.
Follow the whole Roxxana weight gain timeline, see this stage as a panel in the Roxxana weight gain comic, or read it in her own words in Roxxana's Feedee Diary: Journal of the Seven Banquets, 170 → 1,100 lb. See every woman at this size on SSBBW feedee, or meet the cast on feedee girls.