Vanessa Feltz reveals mother put her on a diet aged nine

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Vanessa Feltz reveals mother put her on a diet aged nineSource: Loose Women

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00:00The awful thing is what I had to have a flipping gastric bypass and if I just waited a couple more years

00:04I could add to those blinking injections that everyone else is having

00:07I was then pick that would go that could have had that but I want to have the gastric

00:11I felt I had no blinking choice. What made you feel like you had no choice?

00:15Well, I tell you media was it family was it everything really?

00:18I said so I was a little girl and I wasn't one of those little chubby girls that likes eating cake

00:22I was the the skinny kind that's not very interested in food

00:25And then I did this thing that my parents really never forgave me for

00:28Which in those days you called developing, you know, you suddenly start to get very tiny bosoms. Oh, that's when I was three

00:34Oh my gosh, I think I've got pear juice in my hair. That's why it looks all stiff like that

00:39And that's my special best party dress. Um, and and I I suddenly started developing and I mean, you know

00:45You've got a little bosom son. I was about nine. Yeah, my mum rushed me off to the specialist. What's going on with her?

00:50So what mrs. Felt she's developing my grandma said that's ridiculous. She's only nine that you know

00:55It almost as if I'd done it on purpose

00:56Which of course I hadn't and then I think my mum thought that you know

00:59My waist would go in my hips would come out which is what happens, isn't it?

01:03We are developing and I think she panicked I'd be fat now

01:05This is the 60s where everyone wanted to look like Twiggy

01:08Also, they wanted me very marriageable and marriageable meant thin like it always seems to everything seems to be thin and but I wasn't that

01:15I was quite thin and from that moment. She sort of started darting me. So she's saying I'm where old were you nine?

01:21We're all having the chicken soup, you know with vermicelli and with you know, lovely dumplings and everything Vanessa's having half a grapefruit

01:28Wow, I was nine

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