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Kathleen Speirs

Paisley nurse weighed just six stone during years-long anorexia battle

A nurse whose dark battle with anorexia saw her weight plummet to just six stone said she survived on fizzy juice, Mentos and veggie sausages.

Blair Paton's teenage years were tainted by her eating disorder, which she developed at the age of 15 following the removal of a benign brain tumour and as she struggled to cope with her mum's alcoholism.

The neonatal intensive care nurse from Paisley said her condition developed when she went was preparing for a dance show, the Daily Record reports.

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