The secret world of mid-life bulimics

It's usually associated with teenage girls but bulimia is also afflicting women overwhelmed by the pressures of modern family life 

By Charlotte Kemp

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

With her Karen Millen pencil skirt, pretty blouse and two-inch heels, Heather Cooper looks very much the professional.

Every morning, she arrives at her London office immaculately dressed, her blonde hair groomed into a chignon and her nails carefully manicured.

But the truth is, behind her polished exterior, this 45-year-old sales and training manager from Hertfordshire is hiding a self-destructive secret. For Heather is bulimic, caught in a cycle of bingeing and purging which destroyed one long-term relationship and has robbed her of the chance of motherhood. Yet she cannot stop.

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Eating disorders are a struggle, no matter what age you may be.  What can be the difficulties of struggling with bulimia in mid-life as opposed to a adolescent or young adult?