Weird: Ethiopian tribe consumes cow's blood and milk to be the fattest(watch pics)

New Delhi: In the remote corner of Ethiopia's Omo Valley, lives an unusual tribe called Bodi tribe. This tribe has an unusual ritual too, they consider fat too attractive and just love to have a fatty body. They organize a competition as well, in which they crown the fattest man of the tribe.The strange thing about this competition is all the men, who participate in it, need to be bachelors. They need to live in isolation for almost 6 months and required to drink a mixture of cow's blood and milk in a bid to be crowned the fattest man.Six months after starting the regime, the men emerge to show off their newly engorged physiques and for a winner to be chosen. On the big day, the contenders for the Bodi tribe's fattest man ceremony ready themselves by covering their bodies in a mixture of white clay and ash.With the start of the ceremony all the participants walk to the sacred tree where the ceremony takes place - a challenge for them because of their weightThe champion fat man is then feted as a hero for the rest of his life.Here every male child has a dream to be the fattest man some day and the majority of Bodi girls hope to marry one of the fattest men if they can.The Bodi's traditional lifestyle is under threat because of government plans to settle 300,000 people from all over Ethiopia in Hana Mursi, the main Bodi town. All these interesting photographs of the tribe have been captured by a French photographer Eric Lafforgue.