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I just think that there are other options long before resorting to surgery. I've struggled with my weight since puberty. I spent two summers at a weight loss camp as a young teenager. (I wanted to go. No one forced me.) How about something like that? Go away for 8 weeks. Come back thin(ner). Or how about spending that money on a personal trainer and a dietician. If you have the money to spend on weight loss surgery for your child, there are lots of other ways to help the kid lose weight.

Definitely sad and twisted. The thing that concerns me the most is the idea that, if this type of thing were to go unregulated, parents would be even lazier about nutrition and wellness.  You know, if she gets fat, we'll just shrink her stomach. It's the way us Americans like our fixes: quick and easy, and expensive and unnecessary.  

And from a distribution of wealth perspective, it's even more twisted.  How much of the world is impovershed and/or malnurished?  We're so wealthy, we get fat, then still have so much money left over, we get unnecessary surgery to fix the problem our wealth created. In the meantime, children in third world nations die from being malnourished.  Twisted.

A teenage girl who undergoes major gastric surgery faces never being able to eat enough to nourish a growing baby.  I wonder if Brooke's mom has any plans for grandchildren.  It sounds more like the person who has a problem with Brooke overeating is not Brooke, but her mother.  And that is *sad*.

It's disgusting.  Where the hell is Child Services???  My daughter is 12....that poor girl.  If that's a current photo, what the f***?  She doesn't look fat at all.

Shame, shame on her parents.  They should be locked up.

My daughter is like Brooke. From age 7 she just starting gaining weight, we watched her with the junk food, she got exercise, we saw doctors. By age 14 she weighed 240lbs. We took her to a doctor who told us she had an eating disorder (over eating). She's now 17 weighing about 267 on her way to turning 18 and is getting plastic surgery. We support her 100% and if we would have known all the problems she was going to go through as she grew up, we would have done a surgery at 16. Call it crazy, child abuse, whatever. You don't know what we went through. You don't know the emotional and physical pain.