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Starving British Woman Retains Body of 12-year-old
'I wanted to achieve my dream of going to university and knew I had to be well enough to study.'
She seems to have done well academically she has a first-class degree in biomedical science from King's College London.
She now intends to study for a PhD, her ambition being to find ways of curing cancer.
But doctors have warned her that if she continues with her extreme diet she could seriously harm her liver and kidneys. She may have also damaged her fertility.
Yet she is still not ready to become a woman.
'Looking younger and having a child's body does give me an odd buzz and a sense of achievement,' she said.
'Also, while I have never had a proper boyfriend or even felt sexy, I wouldn't want to develop curves because I wouldn't feel comfortable attracting men's attention.'
Her parents have 'begged and cajoled' her to eat more, she said, but to no avail.
Miss Hensley added: 'While in some ways I long to break out of the bubble I've created for myself and be like any other 23-year-old woman, I am also terrified of taking that step.'
Experts warn more and more young women are controlling their weight to a dangerous extent.
Deanne Jade, a psychologist at the National Centre for Eating Disorders, said: 'Women, particularly young women, are these days under such pressures to have the perfect body that we are seeing a new trend in eating disorders emerging.
' .. in their bid to stay so slim they take terrible risks with their health - ironically ending up suffering from diseases usually associated with the elderly such as osteoporosis and crumbling teeth.'
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Its time these kids realise the consequences. Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder, not in zero sized hips due to starvation. Time these kids change their lifestyle, and work on their health.