A 30 year old woman, Helen
Gillespie who has starved herself for twenty years in a bid to stay young has
been left with the body of an elderly woman.
Helen began dieting when she
was just ten years old, because she was afraid of growing up and as she got older,
she began dreading adult responsibilities, giving her more reason to starve
herself.
As a result of her drastic
dieting she missed puberty as a teenager and didn't have her first period until
she was 26.
More so, she never developed
breasts and was forced to wear prosthetics made for cancer patients.
She said: “I never developed
properly, so I’ve got a child’s frame - I don’t have hips and I’m completely
flat chested.
More photos after the cut......
When she started dieting,
Helen limited her food intake to just 60 calories a day and by the time she was
14, she weighed just four-and-a-half stone.
But far from not developing,
the eating disorder has left her with varicose veins and the crumbling bones of
a 70-year-old woman.
Helen, from Perth, Scotland,
explained: "Doctors tell me my bones are so weak that I broke my wrist
after a fall when I was 14. If I don’t improve, I’ll continue to age
prematurely.
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| Helen with her mum Rachel |
“I’m sharing my story
because I want to warn others that anorexia can take your childhood away."
However she is still unable to
bring herself to eat a healthy adult diet.Instead she eats just 750 calories a
day; a small bowl of cereal for breakfast, four pieces of fruit at 5pm, then
two pieces of toast and a tin of baked beans around 2am - just over half of the
recommended amount for a child aged one to three
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| Healthy ... at 22, Helen weighed nine stone - before relapsing |
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