Michelle Mone compared her weight struggles with self-abuse after she lost eight stone. In a new interview, the lingerie tycoon claimed she was abusing herself when she was at her heaviest size 22 which sunk her into a dark depression.
The global speaker, 48, said her snowballing weight gain - which saw her get "bigger and bigger" - was spurred on by her heartache.
It was her divorce from her first husband Michael left her feeling depressed in 2012. She told MailOnline : "I was at my heaviest and had three children running around me and [I was] launching Ultimo around the world.
I was getting bigger and bigger. "I was abusing myself. I was on antidepressants from the doctor. It was awful." Her parents Duncan, 70, and Isabel, 71, were left
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