By
Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:58 AM on 5th April 2011
She’s been looking worryingly thin in recent months after losing an incredible amount of weight following the birth of her second child last year.
After months of speculation, Nicola McLean has admitted she is suffering from an eating disorder and sometimes goes for a whole day without eating.
The mother-of-two, 29, relies on coffee and Diet Coke to get her through the day after losing six stone over the past year.
Gaunt: Nicola McLean’s weight loss was clear to see in her face as she left a party in London on March 24
Super skinny: The WAG now weighs seven and a half stone after losing six stone last year
In a candid interview with the new issue of OK! magazine, McLean reveals her eating pattern is worrying her husband, Walsall footballer Tom Williams and her friends.
Her diet issues have also been exacerbated by the stress brought on as her mother battles breast cancer.
The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star tells the magazine: ‘I go for long periods without eating. But then I will eat, I’m not afraid of eating, but I don’t eat normally.
‘I don’t make myself sick. I wouldn’t eat every day. No way.’
Although she accepts her has a problem and she knows she is damaging her health, she still hasn’t taken moves to overcome it.
Changing shape: A heavily-pregnant McLean in January 2009 (left) and a healthy size 8 in December 2008 (right)
She explained: ‘I’m starving myself and that could be life-threatening. I know I’m not being healthy. My husband is supportive. He says I need to eat more.’
The 5ft 4in star now weighs seven and a
half stone – which means she has a Body Mass Index of 18.0 – which means
she is just falls into the ‘underweight’ category.
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McLean conceded that if it wasn’t for her surgically-enhanced 32G breasts, she would have ‘the figure of a 12-year-old boy’.Â
With supporting her ailing mother and bringing up her sons Rocky, four, and Striker, one, McLean says she is too focused on them instead of sorting out her eating habits.
‘It’s just gone too far now’: McLean first showed off signs of her drastic weight loss in November last year
Although she is receiving advice from life coaches regarding panic attacks, she doesn’t appear to be ready to conquer her diet.
She said: ‘I’m not ready to conquer this yet. I have a strong mind and until I want to put on weight, I won’t. And I don’t.’
McLean originally weighed 8st 7lbs before she fell pregnant with Striker in 2009 and piled on the pounds while expecting him.
But after her little boy was born in March last year, she admits she was become ‘obsessed’ with losing weight.
She concedes: ‘I began losing the baby weight healthily, working out and eating well. But it’s just gone too far now.’
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