Obese baby Juanita Valentina Hernandez (Picture: Barcroft)

At just ten months old, obese baby Juanita Valentina Hernandez weighs the same as an average five-year-old.

The bubbly youngster weighed just six pounds (3kg) when she was born, but now she tips the scales at a massive 44lbs (three stone, or 20kg) and is undergoing tests to determine the cause of her surprise weight-gain.

Juanita’s anxious mother, Sandra Franco, from Libano, Colombia, said she has no idea how her child’s weight has ballooned.

‘When she was fifteen days old she was already looking chubby, because she was born very thin,’ she revealed.


‘Since then she’s been gaining weight. Now she is ten months old and I have realised that she has morbid obesity.



‘Until now I haven’t been able to treat her because I am unemployed and didn’t have the money.’

She’s been rapidly gaining weight since birth, and is thought to be a medical problem (Picture: Barcroft)

Last month Colombian charity Gorditos de Corazon – Chubby Hearts – brought Juanita to the capital, Bogota, where a team of specialists began treatment.

Charity founder Salvador Palacio Gonzalez has made it his mission to tackle a growing obesity problem, which increasingly is affecting children.

Juanita is the third baby he has seen in the last year who weighs more than 20kgs.

Sandra added: ‘To all mothers that have babies like this, please take care of our children if we don’t want them to get sick.

‘Please don’t let them die from one of these diseases.’

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