12 Year Old Lap-Band Girl a Celebrity?
Yesterday I saw a CNN story about the 12 year old girl who underwent Lap Band surgery recently. I meant to blog about the story yesterday but forgot. Then I got a reminder this morning when her story appeared on another news channel.
Apparently, she is becoming quite the celebrity.
But this is actually the second case (that we know of) where a 12-year-old girl had Lap Band surgery. We blogged about a similar news story back in the beginning of July. That story was about a 12-year-old girl from Washington State who underwent a Lap Band surgery — in Tijuana, Mexico. See blog post titled 12-Year-Old Girl Has Lap Band Surgery.
The more recent story is about a girl in Texas, and for some reason this case has exploded onto the media scene while the previous story went largely unnoticed by the country. Here is a story on a Fox News website about the girl. You can also see a video interview with the girl on CNN’s website.
Publisher’s note: The owners of this website do not condone or condemn weight loss surgery in patients so young. We remain neutral on the subject and merely gather information for your own personal research.
Surgery News | Senior Editor | 
August 8, 2007 8:29 am