12 Year old Gets lap Band After Failed Liposuction

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Too Young? Teen Gets Stomach Band After Lipo

This kind of thing makes me sick... this is just wrong on so many levels...

Really. If the child needs to lose weight, what happened to eating less and exercising more? Developing internal self-control is not something that should be avoided. You don't go running for a "fix" out of the medicine cabinet or a specialist every time you face something you need to manage.

[And what the hell, all this for 40 pounds, at AGE 12???? What the HELL are her parents thinking? That's major surgery, with the risks, for 40 pounds?!?!? ]

How tremendously pathetic on all fronts.

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Pretty stupid that a 12 YEAR OLD would need something like that done, when they have only just entered PUBERTY. Haven't people over there heard of exercise, nutrition and self control? Even if it's genetic, surely some of it would have been sorted out during puberty. I've known fat kids when I went to school, and even though some would have been picked on, not one of them would have resorted to that nonsense. Matter of fact, you know who I blame? Hollywood and the modelling industry (like those w*kers on America's Next Top Model). It seems a lot of people, especially teenagers, get conned into a sheep mentality and have to follow what the models and actors are doing. Pathetic, if you ask me.

Well said, Chosen One. I also think that this is just sick and irresponsible on her parent's side, and really, really dumb on hers. Come on now, they let her do this to herself when all the current medical knowledge says it's a bad idea?! No problem, just go to Mexico!
Notice that the girl said that the facility for surgery "Seemed "clean. I can make my kitchen and house "Seem" clean too, but I still have 3 cats and a metric ton of cucarachas. (They were here before I moved in.) This kid needs to be seriously straightened out before she ends up dead or worse, and her stupid parents have to learn to tell her "NO." //end rant

I take it the parents paid for this surgery. It's possible the weight gain of 40 lb was normal and part of puberty, where a child can grow a great deal in a short time. Now, had this girl been 4 stone overweight, there would have been a bit more sympathy in my mind for an operation but even then, it should only have been an absolute last resort.

Apparently these things are just too hard now; why try when you can take the easy way out?

I remember seeing this story on the news a little over a week ago; they interviewed the mother (but not really the girl). She was saying that she went to Mexico because the US had "so much red tape" and while she was sure the psychological tests were "important," they "cost a lot of money."