A 193 stone object, discovered recently in New York and thought to be one of the world's largest pumpkins, turned out to be a person.

Melissa "Squash" Kürbiskopf gradually turned pumpkin orange from eating a diet exclusively consisting of butternut squash soup, pumpkin pie and starting her day with a killer Starbucks combination of pumpkin loaf and a latte with a double pumpkin shot. Yummy!

Melissa told FNN:

I need help. I am addicted to pumpkin foodstuffs and now I look like a pumpkin. I was relaxing in Central Park when a truck came along and loaded me onto a trailer to take me to a pumpkin weighing station. It wasn't until they unloaded me that they discovered I had arms, legs and a head.

The upside is that all this exposure has led to McDonalds offering to sponsor my diet plan by using me as the spokesperson for their new Quadruple Pumpkin Burger sandwich (with special pumpkin sauce) that is a key offering of their new healthy and gluten-free Jabba the Hut range (for a limited time only). Bonus!