Season 13, Episode 4
Kaila
Age: 19
Location: Los Gatos, California
Addiction: Anorexia
What’s memorable: She weighs 80 pounds, first of all. A smart and beautiful girl from an upper crust traditional family with decent parents: it’s hard to understand what went so wrong that she has to go to such extremes in order to feel loved, but no one knows what goes on in other peoples’ heads. Kaila literally has days to live, but she feels powerful “going against the laws of nature.” It’s all very sad.
Official Synopsis: As a young girl, Kaila, 19, was raised in an affluent, image-conscious community where she felt teased for being overweight, and overlooked by her parents. Now, at a mere 80 pounds and eating only a few hundred calories a day, Kaila is literally starving herself to death to have what she’s always wanted–to be the center of her family’s attention. Her distraught parents have been told by Kaila’s doctors to prepare for her death, “Intervention is truly our last option,” says Kaila’s mother, “Please help us!”
Original Air Date: July 2013
Interventionist: Ken
As always, hard to tell from social media, but in recent pics she looks active and not as thin as she has been. I hope she’s doing well.
ugh. this one is tough for me. Kaila is so very sick and is holding her terrified family hostage through her disease. unfortunately people in the depths of an eating disorder aren’t always the nicest bunch. some people get very manipulative and nasty even if they’re good hearted people (see: Andrew). Kaila seems intelligent and could do a lot of good if she decides to get healthy.
She did decide to get healthy, and did gain weight.
Unfortunately her facebook shows her back to her original pale, tired, and bone thin. She may really want to get healthy but I think that decision isn’t strong enougg to overpower her problems. I wish her the best.
Yes she got married in 2019 – there are wedding pix on her mother’s FB page – but from the profile pic on Kaila’s page (which I linked to from her mother’s), Kaila doesn’t look well at all.
Kaila appears to be doing so amazing and is married now. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kailabee093
I’m watching this episode now and I am so happy to see her progress and that she looks amazing and is doing so well in life.
Here she is- looks healthy and newly married!
https://www.facebook.com/kaila.bentinck
Can’t find any obit info, but she got married last year. https://www.facebook.com/kaila.bentinck/about
I just saw her facebook. She got married at the end of September! She was so beautiful on her wedding! I’m so happy for her! I hope everything is ok around her!^^