Posted on 09/25/2014 3:56:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Christina Briggs, 26, from Wigan, says she hates her large size
But she wants help from the government to lose weight She's on benefits and can only afford to buy junk food and takeaways
She said being fat is not her 'fault' as 'healthy food is too expensive'
An obese mother-of-two who lives on benefits says she needs more of taxpayers' money to overhaul her unhealthy lifestyle.
Christina Briggs, 26, from Wigan, says she hates being 25 stone but she can't do anything about it because she can only afford junk food. Meanwhile, exercise is out of the question because she doesn't have the funds to join a gym.
The single mother told Closer Magazine: 'It's not easy being overweight and on benefits. If I was well off, I'd be able to buy fresh food and afford a gym membership.
'I tried swimming but it cost £22 a month and it meant I had to cut back on my favourite pizza and Chinese takeaways.'
Unemployed Christina gets £20,000 in benefits a year and lives in a council house with her two children by different fathers, Helena, 10, and Robert, two.
She left school as a teenager after falling pregnant with her daughter following a one night stand....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
25 stone equals 350 lbs!!!!!
You don’t need to go to a gym to lose weight. Go for a walk. It’s free.
At 14 pounds per stone, she’s a big ‘un... 350 pounds if I did the multiplication right.
Kill two birds with one stone, you heifer. Walk down to the farmers’ market.
Which is why they wrote the article that way. If they’d said 350#, everyone would have known.
‘I tried swimming but it cost £22 a month and it meant I had to cut back on my favourite pizza and Chinese takeaways.’
I don’t know what to say. People of her weight must need to eat a lot just to “maintain”.
So they can milk her?
> “’I tried swimming but it cost £22 a month and it meant I had to cut back on my favourite pizza and Chinese takeaways.’
I think I know what her problem is...lol
I’m almost that size, but I’m a big, muscular man and hopefully taller than her. And more than twice her age, I might add.
she can afford hair dye and tattoos - those tats would’ve bought a lot of fruits and veggies -
and she want to prove to her kids that she can do it herself - than DO IT yourself!
Stories of this sort serve to focus the public ire on a randomly chosen individual, rather than on the system with its perverse incentives.
NHS employees who do nothing but try to keep treatments away from really sick people cost a whole heck of a lot more than this woman does ... but they’re under the radar, even if they are also fat.
Damn! Just when I thought I couldn’t be Semmens’ed anymore, he picks up a new ‘net ID as the Daily Mail.
He’s too clever for me.
Doesn’t have money to buy healthy food, but does have money for multiple tats. Priorities...
Pizza and chinese food are more expensive than supermarket food. She’s a fat lying thief.
Apparently her very large bulk hasn’t discouraged her lovers so far.
I am sick and tired of people saying “I can’t afford the healthy food.” BS, that is untrue. Apples and oranges, etc are less expensive than junk food. Even if she is correct there is still an easy and inexpensive solution. Eat less! She is an addict.
If I was her, I’d watch my fat ass. It’s coming up on Eid, the muslims might mistake her for a farm animal and butcher her.
I say that because it’s her attitude, not her weight, that disgusts me. She has 2 kids, should they be orphaned because their mom (pathetic specimen that she is, regardless, there’s no replacing mom) was such a morbidly obese lazy slob, unwilling to get in shape, for them if not for herself, that she died of a heart attack at 34?
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