Eating disorder item on This Morning

I was watching "This Morning" today (it's a morning program in the UK, they usually have a mix of topical interviews, fashion and food), and they have just finished talking to a couple who lost their 19 year old daughter Bethany Wallace to bulimia and anorexia. Very sad.

She contracted glandular fever at 16, and due to that she was very fatigued and couldn't eat properly. Her parents reckon this is what kicked off the disordered eating, as she lost a lot of weight because of the glandular fever and when she got better she didn’t want to put it back on.

By the time she was 18, according to her parents she recognised that she had a problem and had started therapy, but she kept losing weight and, one evening, her organs shut down and died in her sleep.

She was a beautiful young girl. This is her at 18, about a year before her weight plummeted and the illness claimed her.

Be safe.  Xx