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In the controversial article, Dara-Lynn talked about her struggles with controlling Betty's weight, and how she halved the portions of her daughter's meals, banned desserts and cut out certain 'bad foods' from her diet.
"Sometimes Bea’s after-school snack was a slice of pizza or a gyro from the snack vendor. Other days I forced her to choose a low-fat vegetable soup or a single hard-boiled egg," she writes in the article.
"Occasionally I’d give in to her pleas for a square of coffee cake, mainly because I wanted to eat half of it. When she was given access to cupcakes at a party, I alternated between saying, 'Let’s not eat that, it’s not good for you'; 'Okay, fine, go ahead, but just one'; and 'Bea, you have to stop eating crap like that, you’re getting too heavy,' depending on my mood. Then I’d secretly eat two when she wasn’t looking."