At 13, former Coronation Street star Victoria Ekanoye was set on becoming a professional athlete – she excelled in the 100m sprint, netball, rounders and swimming at school. “I did every sport going and wanted to be an athlete,” says Victoria, 38.
She trained four days a week despite frequent bouts of crippling leg pain and fatigue which she thought was just a result of being “so incredibly active”.
And it would be years before she found out she was so wrong. “The pain was mainly in my thighs – like somebody pushing a rolling pin onto your thigh bones with all their weight,” says Victoria, who played Angie Appleton on the cobbles for 18 months until January 2019. “The pain was excruciating and sometimes I’d have to stop as I couldn’t push
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