Aly Gilardoni put her daughter Corleigh on a diet at age two.

[Marv]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...t-age-two.html

Weighing in at 17 stone, Aly Gilardoni is well aware of the consequences of over-eating.

Yet the single mother was accused yesterday of inflicting her own problems on her eight-year-old daughter by putting her on a near starvation diet.

Corleigh has been on the regime since the age of two and is allowed just 700 calories a day – 1,000 fewer than recommended.

Miss Gilardoni insists she is acting in her daughter’s best interests, saying: ‘Being overweight dominates my life. I don’t want Corleigh to be like me.’

But Christian Jessen, a doctor on Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies, said: ‘Aly is inflicting her issues on her daughter – she needs to see a psychiatrist.

‘Calorie restricting a normal-weight child is unnecessary and detrimental to her health.

'Her immune system will suffer, her growth may be affected, puberty will be delayed and there will be a risk of osteoporosis as well as mineral and vitamin deficiency.

‘More worryingly, from a psychological point of view, this could trigger severe anorexia that could ultimately kill her.’

Miss Gilardoni said: ‘I don’t want a fat child. I’m obsessed with how she looks. I want her to be pretty and popular and she wouldn’t be if she was bigger.

'My mum is 17 stone, so I think it runs in our family.’

She admits her daughter, who was anaemic until she was five, is now afraid of being fat: ‘She’s always looking in mirrors. I feel guilty – but it’s how I want her to be.’
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She broke up with Corleigh’s father six years ago and, lacking confidence because of her size, vowed her daughter would never get fat: Her ‘getting an eating disorder like anorexia would be preferable’.

Typically, Corleigh eats Weetabix for breakfast, salad and half a roll for lunch, and a jacket potato for dinner.

Miss Gilardoni, who has a BMI of 36, well over the healthy range, gorges on junk food when her daughter is in bed.

She gets through around 3,000 calories a day – usually skipping breakfast and eating biscuits instead, followed by crisps, chips and cheesecake for lunch and pizzas, potato wedges and mashed potato with cheese for dinner.
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‘With an eating disorder you can get through it with therapy. But when you’re fat, you’re fat for life.’

A recent visit to a nurse showed Corleigh is 5lb underweight but otherwise healthy.

Corleigh, aged two



Mommy-dearest's quote about it being preferable for her daughter to get an eating disorder like anorexia just blows my mind.

[MarionCrane]

That poor girl never had a chance.

[TwiztidAngel]

i was expecting to see pix of a severely emaciated child...she looks pretty healthy to me

i don't agree with her 'moms' dietary restrictions though...kids need variety to get as many nutrients as possible...and for her to say she would rather have her daughter be anorexic is just sickening...hey ma, why dont you change you're diet and set a good example would ya? jeez

[thehesbomb]

Fuck this sloppy bitch. Nice try making it seem like it's the best interests of your kid at heart...but really this cunt has no sense of self-worth so she'll be damned if her kid has any either.

[penelopejo]

This lady is crazy. Kids go through growth spurts when they are young. They grow and grow then stop and start to get pudgy around the middle, then grow and grow then stop again. It's like a cycle. If they eat right and exercise, then there's no need for her to put her on a diet.

I remember how my brother got into an argument with his ex over her telling their daughter she was going to get fat cause she ate a hamburger. She actually complained to my brother and told her that my niece was getting big! Guess what happened? SHE FUCKING GREW!!! She doesn't have the pouch anymore, and I hope her mom realizes that.

It's not right that they try to put her on a diet so young. I would not be surprised if she ended up getting anorexia or bulimia. I wish the mom would get it so she'd know how hard it is to over-come it.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Not all calories go to body fat. I would be worried about stunting the kid's brain growth as well (it's already being stunted by mom's actions).

[carolinablue]

I wonder what the kid's energy level and stamina are like. Kids are supposed to run and play; God knows mine went 100mph all day, every day, still do come to think of it.

[Obsolete]

The psychological damage she is inflicting on her daughter is sickening. When the kid becomes anorexic, or kills herself because she feels unworthy I hope the mom understands that she was the reason why.

Instead of worrying about her diet why doesn't she change her own eating and exercise habits and set a good example for her daughter? Put her in track or some other sport she enjoys, you can teach healthy eating and live a healthy lifestyle without fucking up your kids head.

[Rawrehz]

This reminds of of that ever so creepy yet cannot-stop-watching show Toddlers & Tiaras. All the pudgy moms live their hopes and dreams through their kids. A parade of 20 something year old faces on 5 yr old bodies in bikinis.....

[Nell]

This chick irritates me on two levels. One, I don't know how big 17 stone is but she doesn't look huge. So maybe she should just stop hating on herself.

And two. I was anorexic and bulimic for 5 years and it caused real life damage to my body. How dare she just flippantly say she would rather her kid was anorexic than fat??? Stupid heifer.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Mom weighs 17 stones: 238 pounds. She definitely shops in the Plus Size department.

[carolinablue]

17 stones: 238 pounds

Well, that's fat, but not morbidly obese; I also think mom is trying to relive her youth thru her little girl...and that's scary bad. Poor kid may grow up thinking how she looks is more important than who she is; or worse, that what she looks like is who she is. Shit.

[Proud wife]

Ok, here's the thing & this is only my opinion:
I could see if this child was over weight & "mom" feed the kid nothing but junk food. And at some point said oh no, maybe I should be feeding my child healthier food. But, seeing how this little has not been over weight, there is no need for a diet. I have seen kids that need to be on diet. My nieces daughter at the age of 2 weighed like 79LBS. The poor kid would walk up 2 stairs and be winded. This child needs more in her diet than what mom is giving her. This is child abuse, just as it's child abuse when you have an extremely over weight child and do nothing about it. You as the parent are at fault when your young child is under weight OR over weight because you are the one who prepares your child's meals.

[CountryMomma]

This woman needs a reality check. She needs the diet not that beautiful little girl. I am short and over weight and both of my children are tall and thin just like their father. My son is severely anemic and requires a lot of supplements every day so that he may play and run like a normal child. He lost 9 lbs in a little over 3 months because of anemia (you know doctors and how they like to dick around trying to find whats wrong!) and because his diet was incorrect - after seeing what my son went through (he looked extremely tired all the time, had no energy and constantly had viral infections) I can only begin to imagine what this child has gone through. I would personally like to punch her mother in the mouth so that she has to have her jaw wired shut - then she can starve and feel what her child feels.

[Athena]

True story:

Growing up, there was a family down the street with two girls. The older girl was my age; the younger girl, my sister's age. We all became good friends. The older girl, Jessica, clearly took after her father - tall, lean, blonde. The younger girl, Emily, took after her mom - shorter, thick and brunette. Their mom, significantly overweight, took "precautionary" measures with Emily's diet before Emily had even hit puberty. Not as bad as the mother here, I don't think, but Emily was restricted to her mother's Weight Watchers meals and plain rice cakes as snacks, as opposed to the normal kinds of snacks parents tend to have around.

It took no time at all for Emily to become self-conscious about her weight. By the time she hit high school, she was involved in several sports, but her body type just wasn't meant to be thin like her sister's. So, she became bulemic, gorging on food only to puke it up. It was so bad, I used to hide all our snack food when Emily would come visit my sister when she was living with me.

Eventually, the bulemia was taking its toll on her body, impacting her tooth enamel, changing her voice, doing damage to her internal organs. Her family got her treatment and she stopped. Actually, she just traded that vice for another that would help keep her weight down... drugs. She became addicted quickly. She started dating the men who provided them to her. Soon, she was forced to start prostituting herself to support her habit. Her family, who she still lived with, largely turned a blind eye.

To this day, she struggles with drug use that has put her relationship with my sister under a great strain. We can tell when she's clean, because she gains weight. But her self-image issues don't allow her to stay clean for long. I have no doubt that her perpetual struggle to attain a figure her body type simply can't sustain will kill her sooner or later... and it's the direct result of the complex her mother injected her with.

So, when I see what this mother in the article has said, to me, it translates to, "I'd rather her be dead than fat." It's a perspective I'd rather she apply to herself.

[Redshoes]

Athena, I could not agree more. And what a horrifying story- both yours & the featured one.

Having been through an eating disorder (or, really, still having an eating disorder), I cannot believe anyone could think that being anorexic is not a big deal. How could you say that to a child? Who is this fucking stupid?

And she has it backwards. If you are fat because you eat crap all day long, such as herself, YOU CAN CHANGE. fat does not have to remain fat. but if your fucking mom makes you feel disgusting before you are even out of diapers... all the therapists in the world are not going to be able to fix that.

what's funny is that the mom is demonstrating an eating disorder as well- overeating- and instead of trying to deal with her disorder, she is pretty much forcing the opposite disorder on her child.

fucking bitch. seriously.

[Silvahalo]

Corleigh might look healthy enough in that picture but I'd be interested to know what the calorie deprivation did to her body, inside where we can't see. It's crucial for children to get enough calories to develop properly especially brain development. Psychologically, is a whole other level of damage.

This woman is a hypocrite and incredibly selfish. She wants to do right be her daughter, get off your fat ass, exercise, higher a nutritionist, a therapist, show your daughter how to fix a big time wrong. Her daughter will hate her for this later, how incredibly sad.

[VXIII]

Fucking bitch, restricting what the girl can eat but pigging out at night? How fucked up is that? She dont know if the girl will be fat cuz she keeps her half fed, just enough for her to be skinny and healthy but eats like a pig herself... I call her a bitch because thats just what she is, you dont make your kids go without treats and eat them all yourself... your a sick person...