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Prescott reveals bulimia problem

Updated on 20 April 2008

By Keme Nzerem

Even John Prescott admits he's not someone you'd normally associate with bulimia.

But the former deputy prime minister revealed he's been fighting the same eating disorder suffered by Princess Diana, since the 1980s.

He said stress had led him to "take refuge" in food.

Mr Prescott, who is soon to publish his autobiography, also described gorging on trifles and drinking entire cans of condensed milk and the "relief" he then felt at being sick.

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