article_snippet: Alexis Shapiro, from Cibolo, Texas, who suffers from hypothalamic obesity, a condition that leaves Alexis Shapiro constantly hungry and unable to lose weight, weighed 203lbs in 2014 despite being only 4'7.
article_snippet: Alexis Shapiro began rapidly gaining weight after Alexis Shapiro sought treatment for Alexis Shapiro rare brain tumor in 2011; the surgery to remove her rare brain tumor caused damage to Alexis Shapiro hypothalamus and led to the development of hypothalamic obesity.
article_snippet: After gaining 150lbs over the course of two years Alexis Shapiro developed type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related problems.
article_snippet: Feeling better: Alexis, who suffers from hypothalamic obesity, a condition that leaves Alexis Shapiro constantly hungry and unable to lose weight, posed for the camera in a light pink crochet sweater last August .
article_snippet: Alexis Shapiro mom, who said 'hypothalamic obesity is a beast', admitted to the outlet that Alexis Shapiro daughter had since put eight to 10lbs back on Alexis Shapiro frame.
article_snippet: Alexis Shapiro continues to take steroids and growth hormones every day because the life-saving surgery also left Alexis Shapiro with panhypopituitarism, a syndrome marked by decreased secretion of most pituitary hormones.
highlights_snippet: Alexis Shapiro was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor in 2011 and the treatment left Alexis Shapiro with a condition called hypothalamic obesity .
  