Model Bethaney Wallace dies of anorexia aged just 19
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Bethaney Wallace, who had suffered with an eating disorder for three years, was under 7 stone and too weak to work before her death.
She began modelling at just 12, being pictured in teen magazines Make It Groovy, Popgirl and Girl Talk.
Her father Clive told the Daily Mail the teen believed she was fat, saying: ‘She would say she was fat but she was so beautiful – she didn’t realise how beautiful she was. She had up days and down days. It was like Jekyll and Hyde.
‘I tried to warn her that her organs would fail but she just said: “Don’t be silly”. If you mentioned food it would start an argument.’
Ms Wallace, from Newmarket, Suffolk, had been receiving medical attention but died in her sleep on 18 April at her grandmother’s house.
Her father said before her death she appeared to have been making ‘good progress’ and had an eating plan. But her parents said doctors believed her heart had failed after being weakened by the disease.
Her mother Cathy said she had watched her daughter deteriora...
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