This teenage boy has lost half of his body weight – but he still weighs an incredible 30 stone.

Billy Robbins took the title of World’s Heaviest Teenager after exceeding 60 stone – more than half a ton.

Housebound for three years, he was forced into the dramatic weight loss after doctors warned his life would be at risk if his mother continued to overfeed him.


Hungry: Billy Robbins enjoys a plate of hamburgers

Barbara Robbins was so devoted to her son she would wait hand-and-foot on him, fetching him armfuls of fattening foods to satisfy his 8,000 calorie-a-day appetite.

In a Channel 4 documentary due to be shown on Monday, Barbara said: ‘He loves hamburgers, pizza, cola, chips, donuts. He likes good food too though, like broccoli … with cheese on top, of course.’

Barbara even bathed her son by hand, after he became too overweight to fit in the shower.

She said: ‘I did everything for him because he is my baby.’

Following years of teasing at school, Billy refused to return to his final year and was home-schooled instead.


Half ton son: At his heaviest, Billy topped 60 stone

He said: ‘I wish I could get out of my body, it is like a prison. The weight ends up destroying you. It takes your life away.

‘I guess my mother would be my best friend, she pretty much takes care of me.’

Last year, Billy agreed to try and cut down on his bulk after doctors warned him he was risking his life.

Under the care of a top obesity specialist, Billy agreed to lose two-and-a-half stone, so that surgeons could operate safely on him.

Billy’s surgery saw the team at Houston Renaissance Hospital remove a piece of flesh weighing five stone from his stomach.

Over the next three months, thanks to a regime of gentle exercise and a reduced calorie diet, Billy lost a total of 20 stone.

A second operation saw him fitted with a gastric band and Billy left the hospital weighing around 35 stone.


Five stone of flesh was cut from Billy's stomach

But the documentary reveals Barbara was also in need of treatment – and she was offered counseling in a bid to stop her encouraging her son’s out-of-control eating habits.

Barbara confessed to having lost another child to an brain tumour at the age of 19 months.

She said:  ‘I overcompensated after losing Matthew, my first child. It was hard saying no to Billy when he wanted something to eat.

‘Maybe it is an addiction, maybe I’m addicted to my child?

‘It breaks my heart that for Billy to reach his goals, to be anything, to accomplish, to survive, it may mean my death. The guilt I have, sometimes it almost destroys me.’

A final operation saw Billy’s stomach band tightened, bringing him down to 30 stone.

He will also move into a rehab centre in a bid to break the destructive relationship with food his mother.

He said: ‘I am very scared of moving out on my own. But I accept I am going to have to move out eventually, I feel like I am slowly killing my mom.’

Wow, that's a pretty scary and sad story.

Humans are flawed

what's his screenname?

we all know it's true

fatfuck87?

OH SNAP LOL

What the fuck is a "stone"?

I have no clue what a stone is.

Translation?

His mother needs to be shot.

Some people are just too stupid to have kids...really.

1 stone = 14lbs

Thats all kinds of mentally ill right there.

I'M NOT FAT –– I'M JUST BIG BONED !

Check the LaRue forum where he was asking about XXXXXXL shirts.

At any rate, 1 stone = 14 pounds. (For those of us who prefer to use measurements in terms we can understand.)

WTF! I bet that took alot of gubment cheese...

i think his penis has turned in a vagina by all that fat

No shit, only 1 person is to blame here.

He needs to lose another 30 leagues !

Bring me Solo and the Wookie...

They will pay for this outrage.

Child abuse, plain and simple.

That's a boy????

Ok, that was damn funny!

Wow, that is some fucked up mom.

Made my evening!

Man, I needed that laugh!

One of my friends is morbidly obese. He is in his early 20s and has to be 400-500lbs. His mom is about as large (she might actually be larger) and it's obvious she turned him into the giant he is. I'm always sickened and horrified when I hear about the hamburger runs they go on for fast food. I realize they are depressed and what not, but holy fat fuck batman. They are almost the size of small elephants.

1 stone=14 lbs.

In the cases of uber morbid obesity, its ALWAYS the fault of another person who won't stop feeding the fat fuck. They'll feed people 27 pizzas a day along with multiple chickens and a bunch of sodas and junk food. Its freaking insane and nasty.

Poor kid.  Selfish worthless mother.

I can't believe I've never heard of that before.

14 X 60 = 840 lbs.

Poor kid

Is this not child abuse , in one of its many terrible , shitty forms ?

Lock her up , shoot her with balls of her own shit. Then fling burgers at her stupid ass.

Tragedy.

His mom is ALL fucked up.

Lost a baby early so transferred the guilt of that over to babying this one.

I was watching the show about it the other night.

They lopped about 100-200 lbs of fat off with a butcher knife (actually surgery) just to get him down to a weight where they good do the lap band on him.

Pretty sad for both of them.

so does that mean a duece and a half could only haul him and four of his buddies?

You didn't

Oh he did

send him to jail in Alabama

jeez, nobody called him Billy "Baskin" Robbins?  you guys are slipping.

The standard unit of measurement before the imperial system (pounds) was adopted, which the British then replaced with the metric system.

And yet they still insist on constantly mentioning how much something weighs in a system that was obsolete centuries ago that no one outside of England ever fucking cared about.

we'll feed him on 7 cents a day and pocket the change!

I worked with a guy that was 460 pounds when I was fresh out of college.  I got to know him fairly well and just felt sad for him.

It controls everything in your life.  He looked for two years trying to get a job and would get called into all sorts of interviews.  He never got called back.  He finally got a job where I worked.  He stayed in a back office being a 10 key wizard.

This was many years ago and I have not seen him in some time.  I hope he got his weight under control or I am sure he is dead now.

My wife works with severly obese kids. One of the worst was a three year old who weighed...shit you not...92 pounds. She said the kid was literally wider than he was tall. She said he looked like the Michelin man. Sad, really. His joints are going to be all screwed up.

And yes, it is completely the parents fault. The kid ain't drivin' himself to the store for Little Debbies.

I seen this hut on tv a few nights ago with some other incredibly overweight people.
They were getting their fat HACKED off. 40-50 lb. sections from the inner leg at a time.
Afterwards, they would get the gastric bypass procedure.

It looked like a butcher went at it with their legs. Fucking gross.

How in the hell did he make it up and down the basement stairs?