An anorexic teenager ended up just hours from death after consuming no food and water for a week in a desperate bid to become popular at school.
Elle Lietzow, then 17, refused to let even a drop of water touch her lips at the height of her struggle with anorexia, when her weight plummeted to under five-and-a-half stone. MORE PICTURES
After a week of fasting she collapsed with a seizure and was rushed to hospital, where horrified doctors and nurses were astonished she was still alive.
Her toes and fingers had lost their circulation and her nails became brittle, black and snapped easily.
Her long blonde hair was falling out in clumps, her periods had stopped and she became so emaciated her hips and ribs jutted out from under her skin.
Miss Lietzow later admitted to losing weight because she thought that being skinny would make her popular amongst her peers.
She said: 'I wanted to stay skinny just to be accepted by everyone. I had gained so many friends when I lost weight accidentally during my swimming and everyone would compliment me.
'I thought, if I quit swimming I am going to have to keep that low weight so that people would still want to be my friends, because if I gain weight no one would want to be my friend anymore.'
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