TIMARU WOMAN TELLS ‘HOW I LOST 87 KG.... and got my life back!’
‘I wasn’t your average-sized girl, so kids called me fat’
If it hadn’t been for drastic weight-loss surgery, social media sensation Claireabelle Burt would’ve eaten herself to death. The Timaru nanny and singer weighed 170kg when she received a life-changing gastric bypass last April. Now, after years of battling traumatic eating disorders at both ends of the spectrum, she’s finally at peace.
“I’ve had anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorder,” says Claire, 28, who amassed over 31,000 followers on Instagram after posting about her roller-coaster weight-loss journey. “I didn’t even know binge-eating disorder was a thing until I was diagnosed a few years ago. But it was so severe at one point that food didn’t reach my stomach for two months straight.”
Claire’s body battle started at primary school, where she was bullied for
