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Sharon Osbourne admits to being bulimic

Published Tuesday, Dec 21 2004, 12:12 GMT | By Daniel Saney
Sharon Osbourne has admitted that she is battling bulimia.

The wife of rocker Ozzy says that she often throws up her food soon after eating it and has admitted that it is time to seek professional help. Sometimes she even vomits in front of her children.

She told the Daily Mail: "I still have bulimia, Ozzy knows and the kids - my God, how could they not. It's the thing that causes most arguments. We'll be at the dinner table and I'll go off and they'll say, 'Oh, here we go again.' They hate it."

She says that she has been cursed with the problem throughout her adult life and that she had her stomach stapled in the hope of relieving the problem: "I've tried to stop it. I thought when I got my stomach done, it would cure it. It hasn't. It just means I can't eat as much. I still binge. If I'm under stress, I hit the biscuits and the crisps and the bread.

"I cram it in - eat, eat, eat - until I physically can't get any more into my body. The food is piled up to my throat.

"Then I have to be sick. I don't even have to make myself sick. It's automatic."

Sharon, recognising the effect it has on her family, is determined to sort the problem out once and for all: "I will get help. I have to do something, I know."
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