New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

‘My Life Is A Hollywood Movie’

Drunk, overweight and depressed...

The Freddie Bennett who existed five years ago couldn’t be more different than the one the Weekly is chatting with today – a happy, inspirational (albeit exhausted) one who has just returned from a gruelling 300km run across the Arctic Circle.

“I couldn’t even run to the end of the street five years ago,” Freddie, 42, tells. “My life was totally different in every way. Sometimes I can’t quite believe how much everything has changed.

“I was living in the

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