Well, at least Leslie wasn't a smoker. (Image by Anthony Liekens.)
I recently found a brief 1935 British Pathé newsreel of a ginormous 3-year-old boy named Leslie Bowles, who weighed 10 stone (or 140 pounds). Leslie couldn’t walk because his legs weren’t capable of supporting his body weight. And the guy who dangles a chocolate bar above the boy’s head is not helping matters. Watch it here and prepare for your mouth to be agape for 90 seconds.
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