Farmana Khatun, Aliya’s cousin, struggles to hold on to the huge ten-month-old (Picture: Barcroft)

Check out this heavy set ten-month-old.

She weighs nearly 19kg. That’s like the weight of your office chair, to put it in perspective.

Aliya, who lives in a remote village in Jharkhand, India, has been piling on the pounds this birth – but no one knows why.

Her father, Mohammad Saleem, 28, said: ‘We have tried our best, but we could only afford to take her to the local hospital.


‘The doctors in the village could not tell us clearly what she is suffering from.’

She has been taken to the hospital but doctors haven’t diagnoses her (Picture: Barcroft)

Her mum said at one point they were buying new shoes and clothes for her every week.



Shabana, who struggles to hold her in her lap for very long, said: ‘She has become very heavy. My husband comes home very late from work.

‘So all through the day, I have to do household chores and also look after Aliya. It is difficult because she cannot even sit still on her own.

‘She keeps crying throughout the day. She wakes up at night abruptly and also she cannot breathe properly.’

Her sister died after suffering similar weight gain problems (Picture: Barcroft)

Aliya’s sister died aged one and a half after gaining weight in a similar fashion.

Shabana added: ‘We are scared. Simran kept gaining weight all the time. Just like her, Aliya is also growing.

‘So if we leave her untreated, we fear for the worst.’

According to World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, the average weight of a ten-year-old in the UK is 8.5kg – less than half Aliya’s weight.

Further tests need to be conducted (Picture: Barcroft)

‘This could be case of morbid obesity or even a hormonal imbalance’, said Dr Chugh. ‘But we need to conduct some tests on her before making a proper diagnosis.

‘The treatment depends on the diagnosis that we make. There are some disorders that can be treated.

‘As far as the reversal of this weight gain is concerned, that would depend on when we find a cause for it.’

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