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SO I LOST 64KG!

When Anna Hart looked in the mirror as a child, it paralysed her with fear. For years, she stared at her image with tears running down her face, convinced that putting on weight was the only way to keep herself ‘safe’.

The Melbourne woman had suffered the unthinkable: seven years of sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend that began

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