Baby Bunny Smith | |
Birth Name: | Helen Smith |
Birth Date: | 1888 |
Death Date: | 1951 (aged 62 or 63) |
Occupation: | Circus sideshow performer |
Spouse: | Peter Robinson |
Children: | 2 |
Helen "Baby Bunny" Smith (1888–1951)[1] was an American sideshow performer. She made her living traveling with sideshows in the early 20th century billed as a circus fat lady.
Smith was born in 1888. Despite a normal childhood, she became very heavy during grammar school. She left school and took a job as a sideshow performer at the age of 13. Her weight ballooned to as much as . She was billed as "Baby Bunny Smith" during her sideshow career and settled at Coney Island. She met her husband, 58-lb Peter Robinson, a fellow sideshow performer known and billed as "the human skeleton", in the cult film classic Freaks. They had two children.