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What do you get when you cross a baby, a tire and a locust’s ravenous appetite? A munchkin who’d make baby Godzilla blush with envy.
Lei Lei carries forty pounds on his ten-month-old frame, and weighs what a healthy six-year-old might weigh. His girth has earned him a nickname, “the Michelin baby,” according this report.
The big baby’s mom, Cheng Qingyu, says that he had a normal birth weight, but thanks to the kid’s never-ending appetite, he’s ballooned to the point that he almost has his own gravitational field.
The baby’s favorite pastime is eating, his mother says; he puts everything he can get his meat paws on into his mouth. (Might be time to throw some leafy green vegetables in front of him.)
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The mighty mite is now in a hospital in southern China to determine whether there’s a medical reason for his weight.
I hope they don’t study him too closely. The way things are going, in 22 years the Broncos can draft him for the offensive line.
