World’s heaviest teenage boy! Is mommy the one to blame? (Pictured)
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World’s heaviest teenage boy! Is mommy the one to blame? (Pictured)

Houston : TX : USA | Jan 09, 2009 at 2:38 AM PST
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Half Ton Son!

This is a story of a teenage boy who took the title of World’s Heaviest Teenager after exceeding a horrifying 60 stone which is more than half a ton. Billy Robbins presently weighs an incredible 30 stone and that also has been achieved after three surgeries, a diet plan and a light exercise regime. The cause of his extreme obesity – His mother!

Barbara Robbins was such a devoted mother that she would just do anything to fetch his son armfuls of fattening food to satisfy his humongous appetite. Billy’s appetite at the peak of his addiction for food was somewhere close to 8,000 calories a day. Telling to Channel 4 in a documentary, Barbara said; “‘He loves hamburgers, pizza, cola, chips, donuts. He likes good food too though, like broccoli … with cheese on top, of course.”

Housebound for 3 years, Billy was so helpless that his mother would bathe him by hand after he became intolerably overweight to fit in the shower. For her, she said she did everything for him because he was her baby! Billy was forced into a weight loss only when doctors told him that he can lose his life if his mother continued to over-feed him like this.

Billy’s journey of dramatic weight loss began when he lost 2.5 stone under a top diet specialist so that surgeons could operate on him. After the surgery, the doctors were successful in removing a piece of flesh weighing 5 stone from his stomach. Over the next 3 months, Billy managed to lose a total of 20 stones with the help of low calorie diet and a gentle exercise regime.

The second operation saw Billy leaving Hospital at 35 stone while the final one brought him down to 30 stone. He will soon move to a rehab centre to break his deadly addictive relationship with over-eating and his mother. According to the documentary, even his mother needs treatment and she has been offered counseling in a bid to stop her from stuffing his son to death.

In my view, it is the mother who is to be blamed for turning his son into a mountain of flesh. Loving your child and providing for all the needs is one thing but going overboard and giving just about anything and everything to your child just because you love your child like crazy can end taking the very life your baby. So, parents over addicted with your children; be careful before it’s too late!

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Posted By solitaire solitaire | over 3 years ago
Whoa!!!! HALF A TON?!? Even if she fed him a lot, obesity is still something that runs in the family. But, she really didn't help the cause much, did she!
Reply By Majdy Majdy | over 3 years ago
Hey Solitaire, I am trying to get my hands on this Channel 4 documentary that will better explain the addiction of his mother with stuffing him with tons of food. But then again, just imagine this woman was feeding him 8,000 calories a day! Now that is delicious poison going down poor Billy's throat, my friend!
Posted By irshad irshad | over 3 years ago
Very interesting
Posted By citizenjournal citizenjournal | over 3 years ago
Oh my God! hope that he recovers soon from this illness!
Posted By Hurricane Hurricane | over 3 years ago
Oh very interesting article... i was shocked to see the boy and felt extremely sad for him by seeing him lying on the bed... I hope he get well soon.
Posted By InspectorGadget InspectorGadget | over 3 years ago
Half a ton is a lot! I definitely agree that the mother shouldn't have given him all that food. Didn't she realize that she can feed him to a point where his life is under threat? At least the guy is making progress. Let's hope he can break the addiction to constant eating and get healthy.
Posted By amusant amusant | over 3 years ago
seems he was eating enough food to feed an average family!
Posted By solitaire solitaire | over 3 years ago
haha i like your comment amusant! very true! Majdy, if you manage to get more details on this story, do keep us posted!
Posted By mufahasa mufahasa | over 3 years ago
the mother should be put in prison. i have always been an overweight child and now young adult and i know how difficult it can be to try and eat the right foods. as a child ur unaware of wot ur doin to urself, but shes his mother fully aware, and shes pathetic to let her own tragic unfortunate loss affect her sons future.
Posted By ember01 ember01 | about 3 years ago
This poor boy has many more issues other than his mother being an enabler. She has also taken away his self-esteem, confidence, pushes food on him to keep him the way he is, and he can't excape her. I think he should get healed from this, make sure he has a clean bill of health, and be removed from the home until the mother gets the treatment to cut the cord so her son can live a normal life on his own.
Posted By rnforyears rnforyears | almost 3 years ago
It would be nice to get progress reports on this young man's struggles. I agree that the mother has been the enabler and they all should be in on going therapy. His chances of success on his own are slim. I wish him well. He needs lots of support, support, support.
Posted By RobertKeating RobertKeating | over 2 years ago
Here in Australia they showed Billy's story last night. It is amazing to think the mother could just keep giving him way too much food. It was not as if she was passing food through a hole in the wall and could not see the effect it was having on him.

No matter how much she loves him I cannot see how she could keep doing it. Maybe she got to the point where she did not want him to leave the house and she knew if he was the size of a baby elephant he was not going anywhere.

Hopefully Billy continues on his quest to lose weight. You just have to think how much damage has been done to his body after being grossly overweight for so long.
Posted By methee methee | over 2 years ago
oh my God how he wii survive in future
Posted By eldokid eldokid | about 2 years ago
I saw this show several times on television and couldn't help feel anger towards this mother. Her first child died and this is tragic, yes, but she has definite mental issues that SHE needs to deaL with. OK, you lost your first born and that is indeed tragic but get over it already. She made several comments in this show like, "if Billy should die, I'll just jump in the casket with him, there'll be nothing to live for" - what about your husband? I'm sure that comment made him feel good. Another comment she made when they were carting part of his body away they removed in the hospital, she said "can I have that in a jar?" - I'm sure she meant that to be funny, but to me it was a little disgusting not to mention disturbing. This woman definitely needs to get into some counseling so she can deal with the loss of her first child, Matthew, so she can deal with the obesity of Billy which she has undoubtedly contributed to and so she can improve her life as well as those around her. As for Billy, he needs to get up and move around if he can and try to lose some weight. Doesn't he have any friends? What is he going to do in the future when he parents aren't here to look after him and pay his way? I don't mean to be uncaring, but he is 20 years old now, he needs to grow up and be responsible for his own life.
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