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At the height of her bingeeating disorder, Claireabelle Burt kept a heartbreaking video diary.

‘I just want to eat,’ she wept, recording herself repeatedly opening and closing the fridge in despair.

'No one understands how hard this is. I just want to go and eat something.’

At 26st 11b, Claire, from New Zealand, felt utterly trapped.

‘I had given up,’ she says, describing overwhelming feelings of ‘emptiness’.

Claire had

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