Alison Hammond was reduced to tears on Friday 4 March while hosting This Morning during the show's Dear Deidre segment. A viewer called to chat to Deidre Sanders about her daughter's eating disorder, and the hardships the family were facing as a result.
Alison, 47, then proceeded to speak about her own battles, where she called on the NHS to do more for those with obesity as she called it a "disease". "I've had obesity all my life," she candidly revealed, before breaking down in tears.
Alison continued: "What it is is your regulation system is out of whack, so obviously you can't control wanting to eat all the time, and stuff like that. "What people don't realise is that obesity is a disease.
You can't help wanting to eat all the time." She added that she feels "people look down on people" because they're "so big", when it's something they can't control.
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