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Woman reveals decade-long eating disorder hidden from Virgin Atlantic for fear of losing uniform
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What was said
"That was not rock bottom but probably was my rock bottom was losing my job and I was offered a ground job. I didn't want to do that. I'm like a hosty and if you take this away then you're taking everything away."
Lorna Andrews describes concealing severe anorexia during her 10-year Virgin Atlantic career, including using two separate gyms so staff wouldn't notice her exercising for 2-3 hours twice daily. When Virgin Atlantic weighed crew and monitored uniform sizes as standard protocol in the early 2000s, she felt she'd been rewarded with the job for losing weight, fueling her disorder. Her identity became so tied to the uniform that being grounded felt like losing everything.
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- Programme
- Begin Again with Davina McCall
- Episode
- Lorna Luxe: Life After Losing Her Husband John
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- 27:42
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