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A 10-month-old baby who binges on curries and biscuits has baffled doctors after weighing in at 2st 13lbs.

Aliya Saleem weighed a healthy 9lbs at birth but started piling on the pounds at four months old.

Now, she weighs the same as an average six year old and scoffs three times that of a girl her age.

Mum Shabana, 25, told The Sun: “We have to buy her clothes every two weeks because the old ones get too tight.”

Worried parents Shabana and husband Mohammad Saleem, 28, lost another daughter, one, after she too gained weight.

Their son Ali, five, is a normal size.

The family, who earn £3 a day from Mohammad’s job as a tailor, have struggled to get help for Aliya from doctors in Jharkhand, India.

Dr Krishan Chugh, a consultant in the capital, Delhi, said: “This could be a case of morbid obesity or even a hormonal imbalance.

"Reversing her weight gain depends on when we diagnose the problem.”

Despite her condition, Aliya is the favourite baby in the village.

Her mum added: “Kids love playing with her, but few can lift her."