“Being around food is intensely stressful for me. I think I hide it from my daughter pretty well, but I get anxious when she rejects food, or won’t finish everything on her plate.” At the UK’s leading private rehab and addiction centre a group of women ranging in age from 34 to 76 are gathered to talk about the effect their eating disorders are having on their children. All are university-educated, with successful careers. Sophy, aged 42, is bringing up her three-year-old daughter alone. “I’ve had anorexia since the age of 20, and I’m terribly worried that she’ll develop an eating disorder,” she says. “I try to give her a balanced diet but I’m not the most imaginative when it comes to putting meals together. Also, I worry about her eating alone: most nights I just have some cottage cheese and a glass of red wine after she’s gone to bed, but I don’t really sit at the table as such. The problem is it’s just the two of us … it would be good if we could eat together, I know. At least she eats with other people at nursery.” Fran is 53 with two teenage sons. “Thank God… Read full this story
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