It’s very rare that you speak to someone who is truely inspiring, but 17-year-old Chelsea Lawrence is just that.
Sitting in her kitchen with her mum, it is hard to imagine that this confident girl was once so badly bullied that it forced her to become bulimic and - at worst - she was forcing herself to be sick 15 times a day.
Now free from bulimia for two years, Chelsea wants to inspire others with eating disorders to seek help.
Chelsea, a student at The College at Braintree, explained that it started at primary school.
“People would say that I was wearing my make up wrong, or I was wearing my clothes wrong," she said.
“One person said that I would never be good enough.
“I started to believe them and would cry myself to sleep at night.”
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