I completely agree. The poor girl is fourteen. Getting that fat does not happen overnight, this is years of neglect. I mean, yes, she is very tall, and her shoulders are broad, but she is extremely fat for her age, height and frame size. A person of her stature will most likely never be a size two or four, and that is fine. But she should not be as large as she is.  Worse, her Mother went to the paper. Now this is a very public issue and the poor girl will have to go about her shitty life knowing that.  I hope (but let's face it, it's unlikely) that when she grows up and sees this as the low point of her life, to build upon, grow from and move on from. That she loses the weight and has a healthy, long active life. But with such a shitty mother and awful start, there is a tiny chance of that. THIS is why parenting properly is so important - THIS is the hark and damage it causes