Woman stabbed 60 times by school bully over her weight sheds incredible 17 stone
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman who was severely bullied over her weight and even stabbed more than 60 times with a compass has shed an incredible 17 stone.
Clara Barrett was around 11 years old when a bully repeatedly poked her with an old compass in the shoulder, while taunting her: "I bet you're so fat you can't feel this." She never reported the incident at Pingle Academy in Swadlincote, instead spending the rest of the day with blood dripping down her back that she covered up with a cardigan, Staffordshire Live reports.The now 31-year-old said: "I was severely picked on at school.
People used to pull my trousers down. One girl slapped me round the face every day for a year and I later started self-harming by cutting my wrists to make myself feel better."I was also stabbed in the back by a compass 62 times and spent the rest of the day with blood dripping down my back."Even as an adult, she did not escape the bullying over her weight and was once walking down the road when a car sped by and someone in it hurled takeaway food at her.
She was hit in the face and body by noodles and sauce.She said: "If you are fat you are treated like animals. It was like I wasn't human to them."But now, Clara has bounced back from her dreadful school days and to shed 17 stones, slimming down from a 34/36 dress size when she weighed 29 stones to comfortably fitting into a size-eight dress at 12.8 stones.She said: "For a long time my age matched my weight, so when I was 11 I was 11 stones, but I eventually got heavier after the age of 15."She says she "would eat 10 to 15 doughnuts a day, 300g chocolate bars in one sitting and by 2014 I was at my heaviest".After the end of another relationship, Clara decided enough was enough and in 2019 she started on her
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