Kimberly Anne Evans spent her life using food as a friend, confidant and comforter. She estimates now that she ate about 9,000 calories a day. When she was 39 years old, her weight was 347 pounds, and she knew that she was slowly killing herself with food. Then a friend loaned her a DVD of The Phantom of the Opera.” She was moved by the Phantom’s status as an outcast, craving human contact and love.