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    THE INTERVENTION

    Aug 06, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS BY NIAMH BUTLER-WALTON

    Scrolling through social media, I constantly compared myself to my friends, as every other 18-year-old girl does.

    But I took it a bit further...

    ‘Why are you all so much skinnier than me?’ I moaned to my pals regularly, not realising the trap I was getting into.

    I had always been curvier than my friends, with a bum and boobs.

    My friends were worried about me

    But I didn’t appreciate my body, instead getting myself down and wishing for a smaller frame.

    Little by little, I decided to stop eating food.

    Unbeknown to me, I was getting unhappier by the day.

    At home, my mum Eileen, 54, and dad John, 64, were getting a divorce.

    ‘They used to be so happy,’ I thought to myself,

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