{"id":41934,"date":"2025-01-19T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T10:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=41934"},"modified":"2025-02-27T16:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:12:30","slug":"the-viral-70lb-baby-that-was-featured-on-jerry-springer-is-all-grown-up-and-you-better-sit-down-before-seeing-him-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=41934","title":{"rendered":"The Viral 70LB Ba>>>>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-811.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-811.png 572w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-811-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zach Strenkert made an appearance on The Jerry Springer Show when I was just a year old, and I\u2019m willing to wager that some of you weren\u2019t even born yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When his parents put the 70-pound infant on the well-known chat show back in 1996, he was reportedly the talk of the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the video has gone viral in recent years, despite the fact that the show broadcast long before social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositiveinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/439384575_f9a53ee897_o-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30707\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nrbelex\/439384575\">Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, viewers today are unaware that Zach, who is currently 29 years old, has Simpson-Golabi-Behmel Syndrome (SGBS), a rare genetic illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the disease, he gained 2.5 pounds every two weeks and grew an inch, reaching a reported weight of 70 pounds at the age of 17 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Netflix documentary Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera Action, which was just released, has given viewers a better understanding of how bizarre the television program was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach claimed he \u2018felt like a circus act\u2019 after making appearances on shows like Oprah and Inside Edition while growing up in Port Jervis, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThey presented me as different, which only separated me further from everyone else,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/jerry-springer-guest-70lb-baby-914673\">stated<\/a>\u00a0to The Mirror.\u00a0<strong>\u201cI was referred to as the TV kid.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=41901\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Strenkert made an appearance on The Jerry Springer Show when I was just a year old, and I\u2019m willing to wager that some of you weren\u2019t&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51651,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41934\/revisions\/51651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}