I wish I had bulimia like Princess Diana, says Fergie

Sarah Ferguson, pictured, 57, has had a long history of weight problems

The Duchess of York, a self-confessed binge eater who admitted to hoarding food in Buckingham Palace ‘like a squirrel hiding her acorns’, has had a long history of weight problems.

In a startling new admission she now says she wishes she had bulimia like her late sister-in-law, Princess Diana.

Fergie, 57, makes the confession in an interview about overcoming food addiction with Dr Vijay Murthy, whose London clinic she regularly attends.

Last year, she accompanied Murthy on a two-week trip to India to learn more about ayurvedic medicine, an ancient Indian system using herbal compounds, special diets and unorthodox health practices.

‘I never could get bulimia because I just didn’t have that mental state to go that far, but I always wished I could,’ she says.

‘But that just shows you how dangerous and what place I got to. To wish you could have a mental illness to that level is a very serious place to get to.’

Bulimia is an emotional disorder associated with poor body image and an obsessive urge to diet.

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Sufferers indulge in bouts of extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.

Asked how she got into such a state, she replies: ‘My body and mind was in that place, but I couldn’t actually act out to make myself sick.’

Sarah Ferguson says she wishes she had bulimia like her late sister-in-law, Princess Diana, pictured

As a result, Fergie’s weight ballooned. ‘I then grew and grew and grew, because I couldn’t do the final bit, because it just didn’t seem to resonate with me.’

Of her food addiction and public perception, she says: ‘People say to me: “Oh you’re too spontaneous, you do this” . . . I did not accept it for so many years and that was the persecution and that’s why I tried to make myself as beautiful and thin as Princess Diana or Elle Macpherson.

‘I tried and of course it never went that way.’

Fergie, once cruelly nicknamed the Duchess of Pork, became the face of Weight Watchers in the U.S.

She credited her recent 3st weight loss to a diet of mayonnaise, tomatoes and mandarins.

 

Guests come in for rather a lot of Flack!

OCCASION: Glamour Women of the Year Awards, Mayfair, London.

GUESTS: Actresses Felicity Jones and Vanessa Kirby, comedian James Corden, pop star Liam Payne.

TALKING POINT: Prince Harry’s former flame, TV host Caroline Flack, barely contained herself in a £250 Isla Cami low-cut dress.

CONFESSION: Ab Fab’s Jennifer Saunders left with goodie bags worth £3,500, admitting her daughters called beforehand to ensure they could steal her freebies. ‘They come right round and go: “What d’you get? What d’you get?” ’

IDENTITY CRISIS: Feminist Nicole Kidman had big news. ‘I’m changing my name to Nicole Kidwoman,’ she joked. ‘I’ve realised it’s been wrong! I can’t be Kidman!’

TALL ORDER: Ex-Spice Girl Geri Horner, 5ft, was dwarfed by 6ft 5in boxing champ Anthony Joshua. ‘He’s from Watford, near where I used to live,’ she said. ‘Boy done good.’

Ex-Spice Girl Geri Horner, 5ft, was dwarfed by 6ft 5in boxing champ Anthony Joshua

Prince Harry’s former flame, TV host Caroline Flack, pictured left, barely contained herself in a £250 Isla Cami low-cut dress. Billie Piper and Lily James are pictured right at the Glamour Woman of the Year Awards

Left to right: Dawn French, Nicole Kidman and Kathy Lette at the Glamour Women of The Year Awards 2017

 

TV host Fearne Cotton celebrated her 35th birthday last year by decorating her left breast with a tattoo of a lightning bolt in homage to David Bowie.

Now she reveals she will no longer indulge her body art obsession.

‘I’m too old for tattoos now; I’ve stopped,’ Fearne tells me, after amassing more than a dozen.

‘Maybe a tiny one no one can see — but no more big ones!’

 

BBC bans Branson over ‘faked’ TV scene

More woes for Sir Richard Branson’s son Sam. His TV company Sundog Pictures has been banned from winning BBC commissions for six months.

It follows his documentary Hidden Australia for BBC3, in which an Aboriginal wake was allegedly filmed as if it were a ‘party scene’ featuring Aborigines ‘ravaged by alcohol addiction’.

‘Following a full review, the BBC has decided to suspend Sundog Pictures for six months covering all new commissions and development,’ says a spokesman.

‘It was a serious breach of the BBC’s editorial guidelines.’

However, as I reported yesterday, Branson’s space documentary, featuring his father’s Virgin Galactic exploits, will go ahead, as it was ordered prior to the ban.

 

Four candles and a wave from his brave widow at Ronnie’s memorial

Leaning on a crutch for support, Ronnie Corbett’s widow, West End star, Anne Hart, wore her late husband’s CBE and waved to fans at the comedian’s memorial service at Westminster Abbey yesterday.

Vergers carried in four candles in a nod to the famous ‘fork handles’ skit by the Two Ronnies, and the chair from which Corbett delivered his comic monologues was placed in front of the altar.

Restaurateur Simon Parker Bowles, former brother-in-law of the Duchess of Cornwall, remembered the things that ‘thrilled’ Corbett most: ‘Oysters and champagne, aspiring comedians, golf, dogs and slow horses; and especially his love of Anne, his family and close friends, to whom he gave of himself so generously.’

Ronnie Corbett’s widow Anne Hart, pictured left, wore her late husband’s CBE and waved to fans at the comedian’s memorial service at Westminster Abbey yesterday. Vergers carried in four candles, pictured right, in a nod to the famous ‘fork handles’ skit by the Two Ronnies.

 

Real reason Jo is selling bridal dress

Ronnie Wood’s ex-wife Jo has revealed why she is selling the dress she wore, pictured, for her 1985 wedding.

‘I’m getting rid of all my clothes. Ronnie doesn’t care that I’m selling the wedding dress, he doesn’t care about things like that,’ Jo, 63, tells me.

‘When you keep everything from your past you can never move on.’

However, the ex-model is happily moving on with burly builder Paul Scarborough.

Ronnie Wood, right, is pictured with his ex-wife Jo – she has revealed she is getting rid of all her clothes saying: ‘When you keep everything from your past you can never move on’