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Article: JESSICA CAN'T BE SLIM - IT'S TOO PAINFUL; Five-year-old Jessica Mitten weighs a whopping five stone - but it's not her fault. It's a side-effect of the drug she takes to treat her crippling arthritis. HELEN GARSTON reports....(Features)
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- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 6, 1997
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Strangers often stare at five-year-old Jessica Mitten and then glare disapprovingly at her mum.
For Jessica isn't like other children - she weighs five stone and wears clothes for kiddies twice her age.
The youngster, who suffers from crippling arthritis, has a terrible choice.
She can take powerful steroid drugs which cause her weight to balloon - or she can suffer unbearable agony.
Mum Mary, 32, from Stockport, Cheshire, said: "People just don't understand. Once we were at a supermarket check-out and a woman looked at Jessica and said, ...
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