Background
She was born as Edda Blanck in Pomerania and grew up in a middle-class family in West Berlin.
She was born as Edda Blanck in Pomerania and grew up in a middle-class family in West Berlin.
In 1975 she began working as a prostitute. In the 1990s, Luft (weighing around 175 kg in her prime) began marketing herself as "Germany"s Fattest Whore" and became an icon of German trash culture. She appeared in various talk shows on German television until she got her own Late-night talk on OKB, Im Puff bei Molly Luft (At Molly Luft"s Brothel).
In 1999, she appeared in the music video to the single "Michi Beck in Hell" by Die Fantastischen Vier.
Luft ran a brothel in the Schöneberg district for many years, famed for its low prices. In 2004, after an alleged 90.000 customers, she announced her retirement from the business, sold her brothel and opened a corner bar in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
However, her new line of business proved unprofitable, and after she was diagnosed with colon cancer she gave up the bar as well. In 2007, she returned to prostitution and started a small brothel in the Tiergarten district, but closed shop again after a few months and moved to a retirement home in Berlin-Köpenick, where she died in November 2010, aged 66.