'Britain's fattest teen' pleads for funds to continue US treatment

A 16-year-old girl once dubbed Britain's fattest teen is to make a desperate plea for NHS funding to continue her successful weight loss programme in America.

Georgia Davis has lost more than 14 stone during the last nine months at the Wellspring Academy in North Carolina.

She tipped the scales at 33 stone before adopting a healthy eating plan, taking up exercise and undergoing cognitive behaviour therapy to counter her fatty food impulses.



Her alarming weight gain began at the age of five when she started comfort eating to cope with the stress of her father's death.

A spokesman for the academy, who said Georgia is one of the most successful students in their history, said her scholarship ends in December - six months short of the stay they say Georgia requires. It would cost just over £20,000 to extend her stay at the academy to June.

Georgia, who returned to her home in Aberdare, south Wales, this week, has arranged to meet with her local MP Ann Clwyd to discuss the case.