The "alarming" rise in disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, over the past decade, has now become an "emergency", the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eating Disorders says in a report.

Milly Goldsmith, 27, a lifestyle influencer from London, struggled with anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphia from the age of 13 to 18.

Social media wasn’t around 20 years ago when James, who is gay, first developed anorexia aged 14.

A woman lived with a paralysed stomach for three years and was told she might die after doctors wrongly diagnosed her with anorexia.

Three years out from an anorexia diagnosis, post-relapse number two, any physical exertion was suspect.