When 11-year-old Cherish-Rose Lavelle was complaining of stomach troubles in Queensland, Austrailia, she was eventually taken to a doctor who took one look at her and thought that she was pregnant. Her condition was such that nobody was quite sure what else it could be. Her stomach was inflated and her weakness was apparent but it wasn’t until the doctors investigated further that they discovered something much more sinister than an 11-year-old pregnant girl.
In fact, she had been exhibiting many symptoms but she was unaware of her condition as well and it apparently changed the way she behaved. Her mother says that she was not acting like her same, cheerful self and that she seemed melancholy and depressed a lot lately. Since her mother had no real clues as to why her daughter’s personality was changing, she was unsure on how to help out her daughter. It was even suggested that her daughter was being bullied at school by the other girls for “gaining weight”.
