An Australian woman has escaped death from a rare flesh eating disease due to being “fat”, doctors say.

Clair Robinson, a 23-year-old shop assistant from Victoria, contracted the disease, known medically as necrotising fasciitis, following surgery at a local hospital.
Robinson contracted the disease following an operation to remove a cyst in her ovaries; the infectious disease is reportedly deadly in up to 50 percent of cases.

“If I had have been smaller it would have eaten my organs and my insides.” Ms. Robinson said.

Doctors told her that the disease would have slowly worked its way through her stomach muscles and body tissue, followed soon after by her kidneys and liver which would have been painfully consumed had she not been overweight.

Ms. Robinson is set to marry her fiancé Ashley Bacon on Valentines Day, following a recent proposal in Venice. Head of plastic surgery Michael Leung said she was “very lucky.”

“A person can go from very healthy to very sick or even die within 24 hours, it’s a very scary condition”

“Maybe fat people do have a good life after all.” Ms. Robinson joked.