'I've just started to eat bread again' - Helen Flanagan opens up on eating disorder she's battled since age 16

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Helen Flanagan has revealed that she has only recently started eating bread, having suffered from an eating disorder since she was 16 years old.The Coronation Street star, 34, has bravely opened up about her experience and has shared how becoming a mum has had a positive impact in tackling her disordered eating.

Having risen to fame when she was 10 years old as Rosie Webster, Helen became a familiar face to Coronation Street viewers up and down the country from a young age. “I remember kind of like school nurse being involved and like Coronation Street,” she told the The Life Of Bryony podcast. “They would call my mum up, and she was like, ‘Helen, you'll lose your job’.

And I think it was just a sense of control.” Fortunately Helen, who shares Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and Charlie, three with ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair, added how becoming a mum had helped her to eat more healthily as she was to be a “good example” for her children. “I think having Matilda for me is a really good, like, I need to be a good example because it, I would hate for her to have an eating disorder because it's f*****g miserable,” she explained. “I've just started to eat bread again because I just wouldn't touch it.

When I got into this thing where, like, me and my ex-fiancé split up, that I just suddenly was like, I'm not touching bread and I'm not touching pasta.