I was constantly trying to skip as many meals as I could, she said. Until I was so hungry that I ate so much it made me feel sick, so I was sick because of that. It took me a long time to realise it wasn t going to help my swimming career. Taking that step to share her own personal journey on social media was a daunting one for the champion. Within the first hour I wanted to take it down but it had already had a lot of likes and comments that I felt a lot of energy to keep it up there, Seebohm said.
The Human Evolution Society is proving popular at King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge.
The society is run by a former palaeoanthropologist and is the only one of its kind in the UK that helps prepare A-level students for a range of careers in top universities.
All the students complete an advanced course in human evolutionary anatomy that gives top-level preparation for careers such as medicine.
This year, the Human Evolution Society student leaders are co-presidents Olivia Earthy, who is applying to read Medicine at Oxford, and Grace Huggins who is applying to read Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Cambridge.