it was just an incredible shock. walking into this house, it just feels like such a loving family environment. oh, it s a complete shock. i thought these things happen to other people, not to you. l and yeah, we just never saw it coming at all. - when suddenly they say, ifjoss can put on so much weight a week, - and i was doing the maths, and i was thinking, well, i to get to the target weight, - that s going to be three months. and you have this sudden moment. this isn t a quick fix. this is something we re living with. oh, my earring! nicki graham lived with anorexia for 30 years. she said that when she entered the big brother house in 2006, she felt finally accepted. she certainly won the hearts of the audience, but those that knew nikki say she never really believed that she was loved. the anorexia that would kill her took over her life when she was just eight years old.
i was just very depressed. i would pace around the house all day. my day was just pretty much filled with numbness. i couldn t really take in much information. it was all about just like the exercise i was doing, the food i was eating. her family knew nothing of the abuse. the illness came out of the blue. was this an incredible shock, walking into this house, just feels like such a loving family environment? it was a complete shock. you think these things happen to other people, not to you. and yeah, we just never saw it coming at all. when suddenly they say, you know, ifjoss can put on so much weight a week, and i was doing the maths and i was thinking, well, to get to the target weight, that s going to be three months. and you had this sudden moment, this isn t a quick fix. this is something we are living with. joss feared for her own life. she grew increasingly desperate. i sought out my gp s number of her own home and ijust rang her at her home one evening and kind of put my foot
keeping lots ofjournals about the food i was eating, and then just kind of burning off the calories. her family knew nothing of the abuse. the illness came out of the blue. it was just an incredible shock. walking into this house, it just feels like such a loving family environment. oh, it s a complete shock. i thought these things happen to other people, not to you. i and, yeah, we just never saw it coming at all. - when suddenly they say, ifjoss can put on so much weight a week, - and i was doing the maths, and i was thinking, - well, to get to the target weight, that s going to be three months. i and you have this sudden moment. this isn t a quick fix. this is something we re living with. oh, my earring! nikki graham lived with anorexia for 30 years. she said that when she entered the big brother house in 2006, she felt finally accepted. she certainly won the hearts
understand how to help them. zoe conway has this report. when you restrict your food intake, it numbs you. and so anorexia is a functional illness, it s a way to cope with difficult feelings or beliefs. joss had anorexia for five years. she says it was a way of coping with the sexual abuse she suffered as a child by a nonfamily member. i was quite skeletal. i was just very depressed. i would pace around the house all day. my day was just pretty much filled with numbness. i couldn t really take in much information. it was all about just like the exercise i was doing, the food i was eating. her family knew nothing of the abuse. the illness came out of the blue. was this an incredible shock, walking into this house, just feels like such a loving family environment? it was a complete shock. you think these things happen to other people, not to you. and yeah, we just never
© Provided by Xinhua CHONGQING, April 25 (Xinhua) Come on, time to go to school. Tan Xiangying, 70, would earlier often urge her two grandchildren,