Jun 9, 2011 18:01 GMT  ·  By

A few years ago, Malissa Jones became the youngest person in Britain to get gastric bypass surgery on the NHS to deal with her morbid obesity. Now, she’s been diagnosed an anorexic and has only months to live – and she’s using the time left to speak against the weight loss surgery.

Jones has made headlines before, first for getting the surgery, then for saying she wished she didn’t have it and then after she was diagnosed an anorexic.

Now living on a 300-calorie a day diet mostly in her apartment because she’s too weak to do anything else, she wants people to look at her as an example they must never follow: surgery is not the solution to obesity, she says.

Jones’ most recent problems began almost a year after she went under the knife, precisely when everybody believed she was on the right path.

She became pregnant and the morning sickness made it impossible for her to eat all types of food, she recalls in a new interview with the Daily Mail.

She’s had problems before that too, but she didn’t expect them to escalate like this. By the time her son was born (he lived for less than 60 minutes), she was so weak and sickly that she slipped into a coma for weeks in a row.

Since then, she’s been living on the occasional steamed veggie: and she says she wouldn’t go under the knife again if she were to have another chance.

“Meat, bread and chocolate actually make me feel unwell as, since my bypass, I can’t digest any foods properly. I would be happy if I never had to eat again,” she says.

She now wishes she hadn’t turned to surgery as the solution to her ballooning weight but rather went about it the traditional way, by exercising and going on a diet.

Surgery didn’t solve her problem with food, it only made it worse. Now, instead of turning to food for comfort like she did a while back, she can’t even stand the sight of it.

“Chris [her live-in boyfriend] does his best to care for me and tempt me with food and I know I’m too thin but, believe me, I would rather be fat again,” Jones says.

“I wish I’d never had the operation because it can’t be reversed. I believed it was the answer, but I was wrong. There’s no easy way to lose weight,” she adds.

For the full interview with Malissa Jones, please refer here.