I guess I'm the only one who isn't horrified that her children helped clean her? It's obviously depressing that the reason she needed help was her weight and that she's disabled at so young with teenage children, but there's genuinely nothing creepy or disgusting about a child caring for the physical needs of a disabled parent.
If Milla wasn't super obese and had had a stroke, or was paralyzed, or had MS, or some other medical condition that required her children to bathe her, would anyone even bat an eye? I can't imagine anyone would be calling it creepy or borderline abuse. She didn't get fat and become bedridden so that her children would have to bathe her out of some weird fetish, so I don't understand the pearl-clutching.
I also think, while it's sad that Milla's weight is affecting them, it's pretty insensitive to ask why she should have been allowed to adopt them - it was stated during the show that they were children taken out of the homes of drug addicts. Regardless of her weight, Milla and her husband adopting them saved their lives. People who are looking to adopt want babies, not children, and certainly don't want children who were born addicted to drugs or who have been abused/neglected by their drug abusing parents and their friends. Milla adopting them most likely means that Milla was the only person willing to adopt them. Without her there's a decent chance they would have been in a group home or foster care permanently.
Their situation with Milla is far from ideal, but again I don't see how it's much different than if Milla had adopted them and then had a severe stroke, been injured in an accident, or diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition. If she'd adopted 4 children and then been diagnosed with MS, people would be praising her.
I think it's important to remember on these boards that mental illness is very real and requires real treatment, and shouldn't be treated as less deserving of sympathy than other illnesses. People don't get up to 500, 600, 700 pounds without having something very wrong mentally. It's not a matter of telling them to just stop eating any more than depression is a matter of just cheering up.
I realize it's incredibly frustrating to watch a 700lb person demand a bunch of junk food groceries, but it is an addiction, not a personality flaw.
I thought Milla was refreshing. She knew she had a problem, she sought help, and she followed the guidance of her doctors to change. She actually wanted to improve, not just remain the victim of her addictions and problems. I hope they do an update on her.
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