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Whatever happened to Dzhambulat Khatokhov, the World’s Heaviest Child?
09.18.2013
01:45 pm
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According to the Guinness Book of Records, Dzhambulat “Dzhambik” Khatokhov became world’s heaviest child in 2003. “Dzhambik”  was 3-feet 11-inches in height and weighed 123lbs.

He was just four-years-old.

His mother, Nelya Kabardarkova, said Dzhambik’s ambition was to become a Sumo wrestler.

When he was five, Nelya took her son to Japan to appear on the TV show Impossible. It was the start of a brief media career that led to several documentaries, and a rash of news items on the child.

Dzhambik weighed 6-lbs 6-oz at birth. As he grew, Nelya said that he ate 3-4 meals a day. He was always hungry. She has denied that she deliberately overfed him.

By the age of seven, Dzhambik was 4-ft 3-inches, and weighed 224lbs..

By the age of nine, he weighed 406lbs.

In an interview with the Guardian in 2006, Neyla told Nick Paton Walsh:

“He does not eat that much.”

Then she adds:

“He is happy that size. It is not shameful. He likes showing people how strong he is.”

So, whatever happened to Dzhambik?

Anorak recently posted a blog asking the same question. It would appear, that Dzhambik continued to grow, continued to make money, and continued to have a form of celebrity. Yet, the videos they posted only take Dzhambik up-to the age of eleven.

Where is he now? What is he doing? And is he happy doing it?

On September 24th, Dzhambik will celebrate his fourteenth birthday. It is difficult not to think of Dzhambik in terms of statistics: weight, height, age. But that sadly is perhaps how Neyla wants him to be seen. For being the world’s heaviest child can still make money.
 

 
Bonus clip, plus 2006 documentary on Dzhambik, after the jump…
 
H/T Anorak
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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09.18.2013
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‘Do ladies fart when they are going to have a baby?’: Sex Questions from 7th Graders
08.10.2012
01:23 pm
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Do ladies fart when they are going to have a baby?
 
Sex questions from 7th Graders, who were too embarrassed to ask them in class, so they wrote them down and posted them to their middle school teacher, who answers their questions in class, and then posts them on Tumblr.
 
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How does it smell when people have sex?
 
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How does the dick grow? Why does the pussy have a whole?
 
More questions from 7th Graders, after the jump…
 

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08.10.2012
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Ben Newman’s ‘War School’
05.05.2011
04:55 pm
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War School is a simple and effective short film written and directed by Ben Newman, in which a military training camp is transposed into a British classroom. The film brings home the brutal reality that affects 300,000 children in over 30 countries worldwide.

War School was part of the Ctrl.Alt.Shift Film Competition and has been a major hit with audiences at film festivals worldwide.
 

 
With thanks to Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
 

 

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05.05.2011
04:55 pm
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What North Korean Children Sing About When They Sing About Us
01.27.2010
03:48 pm
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Three new books on North Korea were given a great round-up by Dwight Garner in today’s New York Times.  But I did find one detail in the review particularly compelling.  It was from Barbara Demick’s book (excellent, according to the NYT), Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea:

How are North Koreans taught to think about us?  Well, here?

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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01.27.2010
03:48 pm
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