Girl pretty much eats Ramen Noodles for 13 years.

I enjoy eating ramen every now and again, but I don't think I could last for 13 years on ramen. I would go nuts! Unless it is the awesome stuff you get from nice sushi places.

Both my brothers became picky when we were growing up, oddly I didn't develop those habits. I won't let my kids eat that kind of stuff too much.

Maybe she was really picky and her parents just grew to give in. Not how my parents did it, but that's my assumption.

Sounds like she might be on the Autism spectrum. Let's not judge.

I grew up on Ramen, but I also grew up on Iron Chef Japan which caused me to branch out.

wow. parenting fail.

This ^^^

She has an eating disorder called Selective Eating Disorder which is really hard for the sufferer and her family.

Don't be so judgemental.

Well, maybe she had sensory issues, like my child has. My son has autism and the only foods he eats are: banquet salisbury steak tv dinners (he use to eat everything but the corn, now he only eats the mashed potatoes and leaves everything else). McDonald's McDouble with no pickles and small fries (sometimes he eats only the bread and leaves the patty, sometimes he does the opposite). Tyson Chicken Nuggets from Costco's and nowhere else, no other shapes either or it is not a nugget to him. Ramen noodles, sometimes. Ice cream sandwiches, (when I buy them). Anything carbonated, twinkies, oreos, starburst, birthday cake occasionally if it is the right color and look to him. Pepperoni and Cheese Pizza from anywhere. He will eat my chilli, and he has been known to eat my spaghetti on occasions. He will eat my rotel which consists of velveeta cheese, can of rotel and 1/3 pound of ground turkey or beef with tortilla chips. Baked beans occasionally, any kind of juice, milk sometimes, and yogurt. He loves graham crackers and applesauce. These are all the things he eats. Nothing else. He refuses to try anything new. I tried to give him some peanut butter and he would not even open his mouth. BTW, my son is 6 years old and non-verbal. He is my only child, and I tend to just pick my battles with him when it comes to food. Anyways, back to the girl and the ramen noodle story, maybe she could be autistic or something along those lines and that was all she would eat. I know parents of autistic children now, who claim their child will only eat one thing and they have to feed them pediasure.

I read this earlier. The parents failed this poor girl. They should of gotten her help if she had an eating disorder.

It's not completely her parent's fault. Yes, they should have supplied her with real food. But she is now an adult and is responsible for her own health.

Also. Ramen is disgusting.

There is no evidence that states this is the only thing the parents bought her... unless i missed it. If she didn't want anything else she wouldn't eat it.

This is true. The article does say that her mom buys her a lot of Ramen, but not that it's the only thing her mom buys for her. She makes the ultimate decisions about what she puts in her body.

Wow poor dear, I hope they can at least try and make her health better for her to get older than she is. It sounds like a disorder or Autism to me. Which in that case, you really can't do much but try to make the child happy and as healthy as you can as they choose what they want and will put a fight up if you try to tell them its anything different. I have a cousin who is Autistic and he is an amazing young man now and was and still is super picky at what he eats and it has to be a certain brand and color and such and such.. Prayers for this girl and parents

I had a roommate that figured out how many packages of mr noodles it took every day to keep him from fainting at work so he could budget as much of his money as possible his drug addiction. I have no idea what happened to that guy. Most organized junkie I have ever seen though!

It's not completely her parent's fault. Yes, they should have supplied her with real food. But she is now an adult and is responsible for her own health.

Also. Ramen is disgusting.

There is no evidence that states this is the only thing the parents bought her... unless i missed it. If she didn't want anything else she wouldn't eat it.

Can your link some case studies of five year old children starving themselves to death even when given plenty of real food to eat? I sure don't know of any! Parenting is hard work, and her parents were just plain lazy and bad.

That said, I think there are some serious psych issues in this family, so I'm not judging them as being bad people. They're most likely just sick/crazy.

The family definitely have a problem and need to get help. She should be speaking to psychiatrists and dieticians not smugly posing for journalists. Whatever her issues are they should not have been ignored or pandered to for so long. There are all sorts of reasons for weird eating and a range of recognised food disorders but they can and should be treated just as you would any other illness. If she's been eating like this since she was 5 then her parents are responsible as I don't think kids that age do much grocery shopping.

How can someone survive for so long on basically no protein? That's pretty amazing.

Sounds like she might be on the Autism spectrum. Let's not judge.

let's absolutely judge.
























her terrible parents.