Mom of UK’s Fattest Teen: We Could Not Afford Healthy Food!

Lesley Davis fed her baby condensed milk, and all sorts of unhealthy food throughout her daughter’s life. Now her teen Georgia Davis is the “fattest in all of Britain”. Lesley’s excuse for letting her daughter’s weight get so out of hand? She was unemployed and broke.

I grew up in another country where labor was cheap. We had a live-in maid and a laundrywoman (I do miss those days!) Our laundrywoman Lina had a grade school education, was married to a laborer who drank and gambled, and they had three kids. When Lina’s youngest child was old enough to be weaned from breastfeeding, the child sometimes literally had sugared water in her bottle. Later on, I knew they sometimes only had rice sprinkled with salt for dinner.

Lina’s child, unlike Lesley’s child Georgia, grew up to be healthy and of average weight. I think the main difference between these two mothers is this: while Lesley coped with poverty by comfort eating with her daughter, Lina was busy doing odd jobs here and there with her own daughter.

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