WOM Features

Return To Anamarie

Anamarie Martinez-Regino in New York
Anamarie in New York City



Continued from Page 11

Despite Anamarie's good physical health, the ordeal of being forcibly removed from her parents and her home has taken a traumatic toll on the child's emotional health.

"I think she still remembers (what it was like to be taken away)," Margaret Martinez, Anamarie's grandmother, said.

"She's scared of strangers, new situations," Adela Martinez said. "She has nightmares at night, she's very clingy. She still thinks they're (CYFD) going to take her away."

Fortunately, CYFD is no longer a part of their lives.

"They've stepped back," Adela Martinez said. "They don't see that there's anything more they need to do."

"We would like the public to know that we did not make Anamarie that way (obese), like the state wants everyone to believe," Margeret Martinez said. "I would like to know if any one out there can help."

"I would like to see the State change the way they just come in and take a child out of a loving home and turn everyone's lives up side down without even thinking or even caring what it does to everything in the family or to the child," Margaret Martinez said. "I would like to know who gives them that right."

To date, there has been no medical diagnosis of what makes Anamarie grow taller and heavier than other four-year olds, according to Adela Martinez. "That's still our one and only mystery."

"There was a (genetic) test that was done, donated by a doctor in Dallas," Martinez said. "But that test came out negative (for genetic disorders)."

According to Martinez, Anamarie's ethnicity is a mix of Spanish, Mexican, White and Black.

"If they (doctors) rule out…genetics, they need to accept Ana's body and they need to accept Ana as she is and stop calling us bad parents, trying to blame us," Martinez said. "I'm not doing this to my daughter, I'm tired of proving that (to people)."

"Not all of us are 'Barbie' figures or are going to be," Martinez said. "It's nobody's business, as long as she's healthy and being taken care of."











Anamarieswimming with friend
Anamarie swimming with friend

All photos of Anamarie were reproduced with
permission from the Martinez-Regino family.

Back To Table of Contents

Click For Next Page