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Hannah Phillips & Jessica Taylor

'I only eat chicken nuggets due to food phobia - I turned down £1k to eat a pea'

A woman with a severe food phobia hasn't eaten a vegetable for 22 years - and even turned down £1,000 to eat a single pea.

Summer Monro has lived on a diet of chicken nuggets, chips and crisps for the last two decades due to a rare disorder.

The 25-year-old from Cambridge has avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) which she believes was triggered when she was forced to eat mashed potato at the age of three.

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