‘My daughter Nikki Grahame’s eating disorder spiralled in lockdown’
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The Big Brother star has been battling anorexia since she was a child. Her mother Sue talks about their struggle.
By Eleanor Steafel
When Sue Grahame’s daughter was nine, she can remember climbing into her hospital bed at Great Ormond Street and holding her frail little body.
Frightened that Nikki – who had been hospitalised with a bout of anorexia so bad her physician said it was the worst case he’d ever seen – would die, Sue lay beside her daughter and willed her to get better. ‘Please get well,’ she whispered in her ear. ‘I promise you, life is going to be worth living.’
‘And it was,’ she says. At one point in the Noughties, Nikki Grahame was a household name. The seventh series of Big Brother, in its heyday back in 2006, had made her a reality TV star aged 24. Viewers fell in love with her authenticity and meltdowns, clips of which are still shared on social media today. Back then, reality television was just a bit of fun – a social experiment. In hindsight, what millions loved...
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