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Ich bin auch kein Essstörungsexperte, aber etwas ausführlicher schildert Chrissie das in diesem Telegraph-Artikel, den ich schon vor ein paar Tagen verlinkt habe:
The real iron lady: Chrissie Wellington interview

Demnach hatte sie ab 17 Bulimie.

She was driven to achieve academic success at school, but at 17 her 'craving for control' began to show itself as bulimia.
When she went to the University of Birmingham, she was routinely making herself sick after eating, a habit that continued until her final year; she managed to overcome it to gain a first–class degree in geography, ...

Nachdem das halbwegs überwunden war, hat sie später eine Anorexie entwickelt:

She returned with a sense of her future vocation, but had also become obsessed by healthy eating, weight loss and her own body image, which quickly developed into anorexia. Beginning a masters degree, she would work late into the night before getting up at dawn to go running. She continued to lose weight and her hair began to fall out. The situation came to a head in summer 2001 [also im Alter von 24], when Wellington admitted to her family what was happening, and her brother confronted her. He told her that her eating disorder was tearing their family apart. 'You don't care what you're doing to everyone else,' he said. She says it shocked her into eating more healthily.
I ask if food is still an issue for her. 'I'd be lying if I said that it ever truly goes away. I think I managed it and channelled those urges and compulsions and feelings for control into something else that's enabled me to be very successful. I think the eating disorder was just another reflection of my desire to achieve perfection, although one has a skewed idea sometimes of perfection.
'I definitely don't think that I will ever get over it completely, but I have got a different perspective of, and respect for, my body than I did before. I look in the mirror and whereas before I'd just see the external image, now at least I can look at my body and think, "This has taken me to the top of the world." When I hang up my Lycra, will the eating disorder return? Maybe.'

Momentan hat sie also mit dem Sport ihren Kontrollzwang in eine andere Richtung kanalisiert, dauerhaft gelöst ist das Problem aber wohl nicht.