12-year-old undergoes liposuction

Wow. That's a little crazy.

At 12 years old, I have to wonder what her Tanner Score was (tool used to assess stage of puberty). Girls tend to reach peak weight velocity before peak height velocity (IOW, the gain weight before they gain height) so I wonder if they would have held out and let puberty do its thing (as she maintained a sensible diet/exercise plan) if her overweight would have worked itself out.

Chronic dieting could have also done a number on her metabolism but still, there are experts out there (perhaps doing a little refeeding) that could have helped her and been FAR less riskier.

Would I let my teenager get plastic surgery? Sure, I mean, if a wild animal ripped their face off or they were burned or something like that but to have fat sucked out or boobs lifted? Hells no.

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Uh... no? It would need to be a pretty dire situation, like the one's Amanda mentioned. Obesity is a dire situation in it's own way, but it's also one that can be dealth with non-surgically in most instances.

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This post was way harsh in my opinion. And really judgemental. You don't know much about this girl other than she chose to have lipo done. While I completely disapprove of plastic surgery of any cosmetic kind on young children that are still growing, and I think her parents were wrong to allow the lipo, we really don't know the particulars, do we? This girl might have a metabolic problem. She might have PCOS. She might have thyroid issues.

I don't like when people make snide comments that actually blame fat people for putting any morsel of food into their mouths. This girl was 12. Her parents probably could have been better shoppers and kept the carbs out of the house. And maybe they could have encouraged more exercise, but the fact is, some people are genetically prone to being overweight. It's a fact and no matter how they diet, they're going to be fat. This has been proven over and over on Native American tribes. It might behoove Rachael to be less judgemental and more aware that we don't know the facts about why this young woman was so heavy. But just assuming that it's because she ate more than she should have is plainly ignorant.

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Huh, she is 5'5 and weighed 220. HHHHMMM, wish I could afford lypo, I am 5'2 and weigh 215!! My fiance weighs even more, we watch what we eat and exercise (in fact walk to work or ride our bikes to work) and I have done so for the last three years.

I weighed 170 lbs three years ago, got pregnant and gained 29 lbs, stayed on my diet through out the entire pregnancy (just laid off the diet pills) and keep bike riding and walking (rode my bike until I was 40 weeks and my daughter was born a week later, walked for the last week) and after she was born I gained another 21 lbs.

My doctor (when I had one through medicaid before they dropped me after my daughter was born) was puzzled as to why I kept gaining weight with all the exercise and little food I ate.

Special K every morning for breakfast, pb and j every afternoon for lunch, and hamburger/chicken with a large helping of veggie or fruit (frozen). Basically what we could afford, there was a four month period where money got really tight because my fiance got arrested for child support (all fixed) and I was very sick for first four months of my pregnancy and missed a lot of work and for one month after my daughter was born when I missed two weeks of work and during those times we had mac and cheese and hot dogs and ramen noodles.

Aside from that we still don't loose weight, well I have lost 5 lbs (I did weigh 220).

As for if I would allow my teen to do it, H**L NO! My daughter right now is only 21 months old but I would not allow her to do it if she was 12. If she wants to do it she can wait until she is 18 and living on her own with her OWN money. To allow her to do lypo was showing her surgery can fix things.

I just wish I could get on the scale on morning and it show that my hard work is paying off and it says 170 again and maybe I can get down to 130 like I am suppose to be, and the same for my fiance, but until then we will keep working out and eating right.

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Ever been fat? If it can be done, why not?

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