PUSHING my meal around the plate, I sat at the table in the eating disorder unit, lost in unhappiness.

In treatment for anorexia, this was where I spent my days, returning home in the evenings, before more therapy sessions and group meals with other unwell women.

If you’d told that sad, isolated young girl that she’d one day have a career as a food content creator, with over 400k followers on Instagram, she’d have thought it ridiculous.

I grew up in Colchester , Essex, and lived with my parents Steve, now 67, and Sue, 63, and younger brother Charlie, 29. Life was pretty uneventful until I went to study law at the University of Manchester.

Aged 18 and away from home, family and my boyfriend Mark, now 36, for the first time, I really struggled. I was a naturally introverted, quiet teen

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