A 280 pound 14-year-old girl is set to be the youngest Australian to participate in the world wrestling sumo championships taking place in Estonia later this month.
Samantha-Jane Stacey, who eats “Weetbix and lasagna” to help her stay giant, says that a preexisting condition is to blame/is the reason she’s so sizeable for sumo. “I’m naturally a big girl. I don’t have to eat anything extra.” Stacey explains, “I have a medical condition that does not allow me to lose the weight. A side effect of that means I look obese. But I do have a healthy diet.”
While most women would probably freak the eff out if they had a disease that stopped them from losing weight (all those pumpkin muffins!), Samantha-Jane decided to use it to her benefit and spend her teenage years slamming other people down on mats. Well played, Samantha-Jane. Well played.
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Anonymous Coward says:
Tue, 7th Oct 20085:27 pm
you can eat healthy all you want, but chances are, unless she has a freakish human heart, that weight is diminishing her lifespan because it is putting roughly 2.5 times the amount of stress on her. Her bones and joints are also affected by the immensity of her size.
I wish researchers would come up with a way to solve conditions like her, it’s quite sad really, a lot of obese people are obese because they have nasty thyroid conditions or the like.
leebee says:
Tue, 7th Oct 200811:20 pm
I love it when people are empowered to change their fate when faced with life changing circumstances. And at such a young age too!… Inspiring!
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