Ciara hopes her recovery will inspire other people

BY ARTHUR VUNDLA reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk A STUDENT teacher fears she won’t be able to have children after a five-year battle with anorexia.

Ciara Graham developed the eating disorder when she was 15.

At her lowest, she lived on 600 calories a day and weighed just 6st 9lb.

The 20-year-old, from Coatbridge, is on the road to recovery but doesn’t know if the condition has had a lasting impact on her menstrual cycle.

The third-year student at Glasgow Caledonian University said: “At the moment, I don’t get a period because of my weight. So I don’t know if, once I gain weight, it will come back. Here’s hoping.

“My boyfriend really wants kids in the future, so it does break my heart a little. I want to get better before it’s too late.”

Ciara, who is studying social sciences, has set up an Instagram page providing tips for other young people battling the condition.

She said: “If I had to describe being anorexic in one word, it would be ‘hell’.

“It results in you not caring about anything else and basically wanting to die.

“My teeth were rotten, my period stopped and the lining of the muscles in my throat were damaged – but I still wanted to be skinny, so I

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