Helen "Baby Bunny" Smith (1888âÂÂ1951) 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-pound Peter Robinson, a fellow sideshow performer known and billed as "the human skeleton", in the cult film classic Freaks. They had two children.