Alison Hammond has been consoled by This Morning fans after breaking down live on air as she spoke openly about eating disorders and how she feels obesity is often omitted from the conversation.
The Birmingham-born star was presenting the show on March 4 alongside Dermot O'Leary when she began to cry as she confronted the issue of eating disorders with Deidre Sanders. Alison did her best to fight back the tears initially as the trio discussed the issue: "Obviously I've had... now I'm getting upset... I've had obesity all my life and what it is is your regulation system is out of whack, so you can't control wanting to eat all the time and all that."
As Dermot moved in to comfort her, Alison added: "People help people who are anorexic but they don't help people who are overweight, and that's why so many people turn to surgery and things like that, because we don't know what to do." Alison went on to apologise before Dermot grabbed her hand and moved closer to comfort her: "I'm so sorry, people just don't realise", she added.
