People Magazine South Africa

Dangerously Scrawny, NOW Impressively Brawny

AT just 16 years old Chloe White said her heart ‘broke into a million pieces’ after doctors revealed the horrific news to her parents that their daughterThe now 23-year-old from Perth, Western Australia, explained that she had battled in secret with an insidious eating disorder that saw her weight plummet to a tiny 31kg, while she wore a child’s age 10 clothing. Chloe would go to extreme lengths to hide her unhealthy eating habits and shrinking frame from her parents – and at one point even stopped using toothpaste because she was afraid it contained too many calories.

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