Woman sheds weight to protect daughter from bullying (From Watford Observer)

Woman sheds weight to protect daughter from bullying

5:29pm Monday 13th October 2003

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A WOMAN from Rickmansworth has dropped six dress sizes after vowing to lose weight to prevent her daughter from getting bullied.

Mrs Rachel Caterer of Park Road, Rickmansworth, shed a hefty six stone in just over a year because she didn't want her ten-year-old daughter bullied for having a large mother.

"The decision to lose weight came after her daughter, Chelsea, came home from school and wouldn't eat for a day and a half,' Mrs Caterer said.

"I found out afterwards someone had called her big.

"She's not but it made me very conscious that I didn't want her bullied because she's got a fat mother.

"For me that was it, I had a reason to lose weight for someone other than myself.

"I wanted to teach her to eat healthily and exercise," she said.

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