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Model hopes for victim of anorexia
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Yorkshire Post
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July 3, 2008
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A woman nicknamed "Skeletor" as she fought anorexia is competing
in a modelling competition after battling back to health.
Rebecca Hands, 21, of Southend, Essex, weighed just four stone at
the height of her illness. She spent most of her school years "in
and out" of hospital as she survived on just 120 calories a day - a
fraction of the recommended intake of just under 2,000.
Now back to a "healthy weight", she is looking to rebuild her
life and is in the finals of a modelling competition.
She is one of ...