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From Claire, Age 14

Ht. 5'1", Start: 10 st 4, Today: 10 st 4, Goal: 7 st 10 - Hi I'm Claire and hoping someone can help me or at least give me some encouragement. I'm 14 and have been overweight since I was about 9. Before that I was quite thin and then I just started to gain weight. People started commenting on it like my parents friends. In the last two years my mum has started to criticise my weight constantly. Today she came to my room and started shouting at me because I hadn't helped washing the dishes after lunch. She shouted "You never help because youre always sitting around on your big fat bottom YOU BIG FAT THING". She says this sort of thing constantly. It's like she hates me and when she looks at me all she sees is fat. When she went out of my bedroom I cried and cried. I felt so disgusting and bad. She did something similar last week when she took me and two of my friends to school in the car. As we got out of the car she said I should start walking to school because I'm getting too fat and when she said it she made sure my two friends heard. Another time my aunts and cousins were there and I was sitting on the floor in front of her and she just suudenly said "Claire's getting fat". My aunt said that I'm not that big and my mum said "No that's definitely fat" and stuck her toe in my side. Also she was sitting on a bench in the garden one day and I went and sat beside her and she said that the bench had gone way down when I sat on it and she asked how much I weigh. I just said I don't know and went back into the house away from her. Yesterday she told me that her friend said I had put on weight. I don't feel like I can talk to her because I don't feel close to her and I don't know what to do. My dad is never around and feels like a stranger when he is there. I have only been told I'm fat one time at school and my friends don't usually say that sort of thing. I really hate my life and just feel so unhappy. I know my mum is disappointed about the way I look but I cant help feeling really angry about the things she says... I'm hoping someone has some suggestions about what I can do. Claire xx