Article: Health benefits of pole dancing; Real women Years of ill health left Gillian Budd suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome. As a result, she had been unable to exercise ... until a pal suggested a slightly risque class, which is helping to turn her life around.(Features)

WHEN doctors told illness-stricken Gillian Budd she needed to exercise to gain energy, she found an unusual way to get her heart pumping - by learning to pole-dance.

Diagnosed with Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome, better known as ME, Gillian, 18, had suffered years of depression as a result of her catalogue of ill health.

But the printing apprentice has put paid to the years she'd spent trapped in a cycle of misery by learning the risque routines and it's helped turn her life around.

And despite being told she has to live with ME for the rest of her ...

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