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!