Posted on 08/07/2021 3:16:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Gina detailed how she turned to food as a source of comfort during her childhood. “I got really jealous of my sister, and I remember what made me forget that pain of being abandoned was eating — and by the time I was 10, I was already over 150 pounds,” she recalled.
The reality star claimed that she also suffered physical and verbal abuse at the hands of her father as a young girl. “My weight started to cause problems for me because I started getting bullied a lot, so that led to me acting out and getting punished a lot, which made things even worse — especially with my dad ‘cause he was the enforcer,” she said. “When I did something wrong and he was upset, my punishments from him could get brutal. He would hit me, pull my hair, but at a young age, I didn’t know that was abuse.”
Gina noted that she was more than 300 pounds when she was 14 as she continued relying on food as a coping mechanism. “I was just trying to constantly eat as much as I could, and that pushed my weight to over 450 by the time I graduated high school,” she revealed. “As I was getting closer to 500, it started to get harder to do things.”
The TLC star admitted at the time that her size had “put a strain” on her marriage.
“At this weight, I am very miserable. I’m 28 and I’m probably over 600 pounds now, and I’m only getting bigger,” she explained. “I’m ruining any chance I have for a future all because I can’t stop eating.”
Gina hoped to lose weight at the time she filmed My 600-Lb. Life because she feared for her health.
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I gagged at this point!!!
She was 30, an adult. She made the decision to be the way she was. No one else did.
I disagree looking at here childhood and the years that this became a reality and what she missed out on. The complexity of the medical problems that she was facing and asking her to go to a place that she has never been is asking a lot from her. Obviously she needed a lot more help than what she received.
IâÂÂve watched My 600 Lb. Life now & then, but not lately. Apparently this woman was rude to the medical staff on the show and didnâÂÂt really try to lose any weight. I expect a lot of super-morbidly obese people wouldnâÂÂt have wasted such an opportunity, but itâÂÂs not surprising since she blamed everyone but herself for her situation.
Very sad.
“Sugar, high fructose corn syrup, seed oils.”
those are the worst three, but i’d include almost all seed grains (especially refined ones)as well (would exempt oats, though) ...
Ultra fat America
I’d wager obesity is 20-30 fold from the mid 60s
Most people are fat....and people of color it’s often a majority especially women
When I was a kid...born 1957....women were trim....few fat women
Check out this 1970 video...
The little pug nose in white knit mini dress and black leather ring belt....moving those hips....I can promise she was a baby maker...little thing God love her
Man I’m glad I was alive as a kid then...chicks were mo better....
Japanese whalers are very saddened.
Thanks for posting that Canned Heat vid. It was great. Yes, chicks were great in 1970. I was one of the most awkward of 9th graders around but a keen observer.
I was eighth grade 70-71 but yes I too remember very well
I can’t believe how fat America is now
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