Aged just 17, Malissa Jones made headlines as the youngest person in the UK to have a stomach bypass after she tipped the scales at 34st.
The surgery helped Malissa lose an incredible 26st. But after putting on 5st while pregnant with her youngest son, Cobey, this year, she took drastic action to lose her baby weight.
The mum-of-two ate nothing for 17 days in a row, which led to her organs shutting down. She was put in a coma and, while doctors managed to save her life, Malissa now has liver failure – and without a transplant, she will die.
Malissa – who lives in Selby, Yorkshire, with her partner Paul and their children, Louis, two, and Cobey, nine months – says, “I was so determined to lose the…