Chloe Shelton was only seven years old when she developed worrying signs of nutrition and they literally can’t eat. I would prefer to see someone before they’re so far advanced that I feel as if they’re slipping through my fingers.’’
Chloe, from Wigston, Leicestershire, agrees. She thinks she may not have become so dangerously ill if her eating disorder had been treated before her weight dipped so low.
Growing up with mum Helen, dad Phil, both 46, and sister Danielle, 21, Chloe had a happy childhood, but, like many other eating disorder sufferers, she had low self-esteem. She says: “I felt self-conscious about my appearance and was bullied for my weight, even though I was skinny. I constantly compared myself to others.’’
While Chloe’s relationship with food was unhealthy, throwing…
