Posh diet gave me OAP bones

A STARSTRUCK girl who starved herself in a bid to be as thin as Victoria Beckham has ended up with the bones of an EIGHTY-year-old.

Sarah Watson, 20, developed the painful and incurable condition osteoporosis after denying her body essential nutrients.

Her bones are so brittle they could snap with the slightest pressure.

Gutted Sarah said: “I thought Posh looked great and wanted a body like hers. But I now have large holes in my bones.

“It’s awful but I have to live with it.” The bar worker started her extreme diet when she was 16. but was soon in the grip of “slimmers’ disease” anorexia.

And instead of getting a body to die for she ended up on the verge of death — becoming a skeletal 4ST 13LB.

Sarah, who lost a total four stone, said: “I was already nice and slim but wanted to be size zero like the magazine celebs.

“I’d read somewhere that Posh lived on lettuce leaves and strawberries and not much else and I wanted to see if I had the self-control not to eat.

“I didn’t cut out food completely at first —it was a gradual process. I just pushed the boundaries further and further.

“Eventually, I was living on 40 calories a day, with a diet mainly of black coffee, diet Coke and Bovril.”

Her horrified family sent her to a hospital in Dorset. But Sarah discharged herself. She said: “I was a teenager and my body needed feeding because it was growing.

“But I didn’t see that. I had a very complex illness that I didn’t want put right.”

A year ago Sarah got a wake-up call when a scan revealed osteoporo- sis—a disease usually affecting pensioners. She started eating healthily again and is now 8st.

Sarah, of Notting Hill, West London, said: “Everywhere girls are pressured to be thin, as though to be like Posh or Girls Aloud is something to aspire to.

“But it sickens me now. I’m paying a price that will be with me for ever.”