"I've always been big-boned, although I did eat loads of cakes, crisps and biscuits."

[beth]

hahahaha best quote ever. just read this article from a lady who is demanding surgery on the NHS

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...32.html?ref=uk

Mum-of-six Sara Agintas weighs a hefty 33 stone, thanks to years of gorging on junk food.

But now the 43-year-old, who spends up to £200 a week on takeaways, claims she is "too fat to work" and wants a taxpayer-funded £14,000 gastric bypass on the NHS.

Mrs Agintas, who wears a 36-38 dress-size, blames her junk food habit on years of pregnancy cravings.

In an interview with Closer magazine, she admits to knocking back 12 "small" cans of lager a day when she was expecting her sixth child and complains she put on weight after each birth because she found it "too hard to diet" and says exercise "hurt."

Agintas lives with her six children, Gemma, 25, Lauren, 21, Thomas, 18, Sam, 13, Hannah, 12, and Zoe, nine and husband Halbin, 42, who works just two days a week due to back injury.

Between them they receive £17,000 a year in benefits, including £188 a month in Child Benefit, £200 in Tax Credits, £188 in Housing Benefit - plus £296 in Working Tax Credits from her husband.

She told the magazine: "I can't work because I'm too fat to fit in an office chair and can only stand for two minutes at a time.

"I can't afford a personal trainer or weight-loss surgery - I need help from the taxpayer. I know it's my fault I'm fat, but my pregnancy cravings meant I couldn't stop eating."

When 6ft Agintas became pregnant at 17 by her boyfriend of just a few months she was already weighing in at 15 stone.

She recalls: "I've always been big-boned, although I did eat loads of cakes, crisps and biscuits. It didn't put men off and I got pregnant the first time I had sex. I was happy, because I'd always wanted to be a mum."

But Sara and her boyfriend split a few months into her pregnancy and she moved into a one-bed council flat. During the year after giving birth to Gemma, she claims she applied unsuccessfully for 15 jobs.



She says: "I gave up looking for work after that. I was better off on benefits. I couldn't afford fresh food, so I ate cheap junk food. I had up to eight tins of sausages a day."

In 1990, by the age of 21, Agintas weighed 20st and was a size 24. She met a new boyfriend and, shortly after moving into his three-bed council house, had baby number two, Lauren.

Continuing to binge-eat through her second and third pregnancy, her weight crept up to 30 stone.

She admits: "I fell through the stairs in my house one day and the council had to reinforce the floor. Doctors told me to diet, but it was too hard."

But it wasn't just her own health Agintas was putting at risk. The mum-of-six admits to feeding her children the same junk food.

"They ate what I ate - pasties and crisps. I was lazy - it was easier to phone for a takeaway than cook. I gave them chips four times a week."

In 1993, she was ditched by her boyfriend "for a younger, skinnier woman" and says she turned to food for comfort.

Three years later she met bricklayer Halbin. They wed after just six months and in 1998 gave birth to Sara's fourth child Sam by which time her weight had reached a whopping 38 stone.

"After having Sam, doctors told me to diet, but it was hard. I joined a gym, but could only do five minutes on the running and rowing machines, then I'd have fish and chips afterwards."

Sara managed to lose six stone, but piled two stone back on during her next pregnancy.

Now 33 stone, the 43-year-old who suffers from arthritis, diabetes and asthma, says she is desperate to lose weight but denies she can do it without taxpayers' help.

She says: "I can never get below 30st. Only a bypass will help me."

sounds a bit like a lazy lazy lazy woman if you ask me.

[Catchy]

Oh gosh but I want to say this, right I know maybe like she says in the article it may be 'her fault' for getting like this but probably only to a certain extent. I think what people sometimes don't realise is that being obese is just another eating disorder which must be really hard for them, I don't think we should be so quick to brand these people as fat and lazy just because of things we read.

Saying that by the sounds of it she could've prevented this with a healthy diet and exercise soo, but I reckon once you go past a certain point then there's no stopping!!

[Rozi]

This is sad She obviously is just lazy and personally I think there is no way she should be allowed a gastric band on the NHS until she has been given serious emotional help and intensive dieting plan etcetc go all supersize vs superskinny on her

[cocaine]

'great' britain, ladies and gentlemen.

absolutely no sympathy from me. you make your bed, you sleep in it.

[Jazz]

what a silly women.

[FlyingJesus]

Binge Eating Disorder is a very real and very damaging thing, it's not always enough to just blame weakness and stupidity when it might not be the entire case. It seems like despite doctors obviously knowing she was getting huge they never thought that she might actually need outside help in order to stop her eating habits (and her weight) from escalating. The fact that she's made no effort to exercise as compensation and that she feeds her kids the same way makes me sceptical of this case in particular but even so you shouldn't just dismiss all similar-seeming people as being the exact same when the possibility of complex mental/medical problems is there. To be fair the fact that she wants to lose a whole load indicates that she's willing to give up her "freebie" lifestyle at some point and get herself back on track, which is a difficult thing to start at any point

[Empired]

I can't help but feel sorry for her, but to put your kids through that is just awful. I have heard of cases like this, but I've also heard of cases where obese mothers half-starve their children through fear of putting them through what they, themselves, have had to live with..

And I thought gastric bands could only help you lose weight if you eat a healthy diet? Things like crisps and "crumbly" foods just go straight through it don't they?? :S

[,Jess,]

I feel like I should feel bad for her but I just cant stand that people think they can just get gastric bands etc on the NHS. Like some people see it as a way to avoid dieting and exercise, might not be her but it annoys me. A few months ago I was reading this story about a girl who had this disease that made her lose weight and the NHS wouldnt pay for an operation to fix it even though she is probably going to die from it. I just find it hard to have sympathy.

[Oleh]

I think this is just a case of "manning-up" and getting on with it, gastric bypasses are just a non-conscious way of telling your brain you are full, if you can't do that manually then you might as well be a gargantuan living off benefits.

[Charlie]

I don't feel sorry for her.

She may have tried hard to get a job but giving up was stupid, the fact she did meant she couldn't buy decent food so she ate junk, therefore putting on weight and then it most likely just carried on from there. The more she ate, the bigger she got, the less chance she had of getting a job because she couldn't do it cause of her weight. Plus she knocked back 12 cans of lager while pregnant? Well, that's responsible of her. It's nice that she wants to lose the weight to get a job but she can't expect a freebie due to her laziness.