Chanelle 'wanted to kill herself last year'

Chanelle Hayes has said that she wanted to kill herself last year after a magazine cover mocked her for supposedly being overweight.

The former Big Brother 8 star left hospital today after taking a suspected overdose of painkillers and wine last night.

Prior to the incident, Hayes had told Now: "I went away in January last year and there was a picture of my bum on the cover of a magazine saying, 'Stars Not On A Diet'. That was it. I wanted to kill myself.

"I started taking laxatives and wouldn't eat anything. Men always say, 'I don't like skinny girls', but every time someone cheats on me it's been with someone thinner than me."

She added: "I think they are lying to my face. I lost half a stone because of swine flu and my boyfriend Matt [Bates] told me how great I looked."