50 stone girl

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Why is this on the news?

Is it news or freak show?

Just heard that on radio. They are reporting it as teenager, and on radio didn't mention age so I thought like 15ish. But 19 is an adult. Gave area as well.

Part of me feels sorry for her, part of me wonders why on earth she allowed herself to get so big after the help she had already been given.

I'm listening to radio 5.

All they keep saying is that she had to be rescued from the house. No mention of anything else, it just reeks of pointing and staring to me.

According to daybreak, she was 33 stone went to one of the American bootcamp things and over 9 months lost half her body weight then when she got back she put it back on and a lot more

I can't find a current story on google - can someone link?

There are stories over the last couple of years about 50 stone women.

I thought from thread title this was about a child. Is it?

Found it.

It's not a child: she's a woman of 19. Story here.

It's the salacious way in which the presenter says "and a scaffolding company" was needed to help her out.

Not nice.

Sorry yes, young woman not girl.

Sorry from me too: I was too blunt. I haven't had my morning coffee yet. Although legally an adult, she is still in her teens, and her weight must also have been an issue during her childhood.

If it is the person named in the press, there have certainly been interventions over the last 4 or more years, but it seems they came to nothing.

the sun

She was suffering from crippling aches and Type 2 diabetes. And medics warned her: ?Lose 20 stone or die.?

Georgia checked into a kids? weight loss camp called the Wellspring Academy in the US state of North Carolina.

After nine months there she lost an impressive 14st 6lbs. The first six stone vanished in weeks as she ditched her normal diet of cheese, biscuits and chocolate for lean buffalo meat burgers.

After shrinking from Size 38 to Size 22 she was able to wear fashionable clothes for the first time. But within 20 months of her dramatic transformation she was back up to 40st 6lbs on a 13,000 calorie-a-day diet. She said: ?When I arrived home my mum said she hadn?t had time to prepare any healthy food, so we had fish and chips instead.?

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Just saying.

There was an ambulance in a nearby village yesterday. Not news. This reporting is like a freak show. Poor girl. Hope she can sort her weight out.

This story has been on MN before - I'm pretty sure it'll be in AIBU somewhere.

I think the girl was failed. She was flown out to an American fat camp, lost massive amounts of weight, and was then flown back into the same situation that made her the fattest girl in Britain in the first place.
Could any other outcome have been predicted?

Massive weight problems like that must surely be linked to mental health problems or (dare I say it) abuse (and I consider feeding a girl until she's that big to be abusive on her mothers part). Just because she's now a woman and not a girl, it doesn't mean she's suddenly going to take responsibility for her weight problem. It's not as easy as that.

I'm not sure what the answer is to her problem, but I'm pretty sure humiliating her in a newspaper isn't it.

oh it's so AMERICAN to have reporters there photographing the poor kid in the ambulance! filthy press. I feel very sorry for her and her family....there needs to be a law about things like that...I know free speech is imprtant but the girl is so young and so ill.

Fave you're right. The girl should have been placed in foster care after her American stint....

So who was going out and buying all the food to feed her? Nit read the link yet.

Jesus Christ, the mother or whoever has been feeding the girl who's been 'bed bound for months ' should be prosecuted IMO. Also think her mother has her own reason to keep her big, probably so she doesn't leave home and get a life of her own.

Yep .... her mother should be ashamed of herself. Quite obviously, despite the weight loss reported, she'd put enough back on within a comparatively short time to become housebound again (resulting in her literally being trapped). She would therefore have had to rely upon her mother to buy, prepare and bring food to her and therefore wouldn't have had any control over what that food was. Okay - you could argue that she "could" have stopped after eating some, but not all, of a meal but if she's been used to (probably) near constant feeding (and it'd have to be at 13,000 kcals a day) it would take a huge amount of willpower to say no .... and then you add in the fact that she's very likely depressed as well at being housebound, being in pain, missing out on normal teenage activities and so on, and her only enjoyment is going to be food - for, in effect, the initial "hit" as she eats - and in that moment she's not going to be thinking OMG, "I'm killing myself" is she.

Feel very sorry for her. Can't help but think there must be MH issues in a case like this .... not just the girl but the mother too. I hope that now she's in hospital there will be some sort of long term solution implemented but she's going to need an enormous amount of support and re-education (food wise) to be able to manage this and I'm not sure the "system" works like that.

She's very ill. There is also a step dad involved. In fact, quite a few people knew this was going on and nobody tried to help!

Where did the money come from for all that food? Nobody seems to work in the family. And that housing association house is ruined.

Poor young woman. I feel for her. I hope that among all the gawping and staring she etssmegenuine, long term help and support.

Poor girl :(

Poor poor thing.

PS enjoying use of the word "etssmegenuine" Macaronie

They had a bit about this on the BBC Breakfast show this morning too.

Having this on national television isn't going to help her at all.

Gets some genuine help

Lol

I cannae get on with ipad keyboards!

I just googled etssmegenuine to see what it meant.