Goodbye Julie Pudyear!

Mar 13 2005
Exclusive By Alice Haines

TRAGEDY OF STAR'S ANOREXIC MOTHER
SLIMMER Julie revealed how her weight problems were partly caused by her tragic mum Alice's long battle with anorexia.

Alice, who also had cancer, weighed less than four stone when she died in 1987. Julie said: "I was always a healthy size 12 - I loved food. Maybe subconsciously I decided to eat properly in front of her to show her that you can eat and be all right.

"But after her death I compensated by over-eating. It was very painful seeing her die like that and I didn't want to pass that pain on to my son or grandchildren." Julie only realised how her mother's problems had affected her after a session with Fit Club's hypnotherapist Marissa Peer.

Julie said: "I was incredibly close to my mum and when she died she was only a little older than I am now.

"But I'd never made the link between her eating habits and mine." Julie has since lost two and a half stone and gone down by three dress sizes

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