GOING into Love Island as a confident 21-year-old, Zara McDermott was happy with her size 10 body and had never counted a calorie in her life.
But that all changed when trolls leapt on holiday snaps taken after she left the villa in 2018 and she was flooded with 1,200 comments branding her a “fat whale” and a “unit”.
Zara went on to lose three stone – through healthy eating and exercise – but when she posted the results on Instagram, she was accused of triggering anorexia and other eating disorders.
Now, Zara says those later critics were RIGHT about her before and after pictures.
And she confesses she was reduced to tears when teenage sufferers told her she was “part of the problem.”