Bulimic teen who hid skeletal frame under baggy clothes now flaunts healthy figure after beating illness

 

Jasmin Heaney developed the disorder, categorised by binge eating and purging behaviour, when she was at school

Eating disorder: Shocking photos of Jasmin Heaney when she was unwell

A teenager who hid her skeletal frame because she thought she was fat is now proud to flaunt her figure after recovering from eating disorders.
Striking Jasmin Heaney, 19, developed bulimia - a disorder categorised by binge eating and purging behaviour - when she was at school.
After discovering dangerous websites that promoted eating disorder, Jasmin became 'obsessed' and developed anorexia nervosa too.
She would religiously spend hours everyday online, checking the websites that fuelled her life-threatening disorder.
By the time her family found out, Jasmin weighed just 6st 7 lbs and medics warned she would die without help.
But the retail worker turned her life around and now she shows off her Kardashian-esque curves on Instagram to empower women.

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Healthy: Jasmin Heaney flaunts her figure after recovering from anorexia

Jasmin, from Dublin, Ireland, said: "I was always a bit different at school and I wasn't doing well.
"I was depressive and focused on being skinny as a way of coping, I think.
"I found these social media sites and websites that had tips and that led to my anorexia.
"I would religiously check them and spend pretty much all day obsessively on them.
"It was a routine. I spent half my day on them.
"It's a community of people with disordered mind-sets and many people feed off of each other. It's scary just how easily accessible it is."

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Obsessive: Jasmin says she always logged onto weight loss websites for tips

Severely underweight, Jasmin experienced crippling pain and was having trouble walking and breathing.
She said: "I thought I was in control but it was in control of me.
"I could feel my chest was in a lot of pain and I could barely walk.
"I was literally dying but at the time I thought I was fat."
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"I was hiding myself under big jumpers," she continued.
"I was isolating myself from everyone. I just wanted to live in solitary with my eating disorder."
The desperate teen eventually confided in her older sister who persuaded Jasmin to tell their parents.
They took her to the doctors for tests and she was referred to a counsellor.

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Isolated: The teenager was living a solitary life, and worried about her weight

Jasmin said: "It got to the point of life and death and the doctors threaten me with hospitalisation.
"It really scared me. But seeing my mum's face when we were at the doctors, and she saw what I was doing to my self, was such a shock and it hurt so much.
"It was hard though still as I wasn't sure I wanted to get better. I didn't want to let go."
Although Jasmin started to take steps towards recovery, it wasn't until a girls holiday to Malta that she committed to changing her life.