For Caroline Chisholm,it was not only bariatric surgery that transformed her, but the counselling that got to the root of her binge eatingCaroline Chisholm used to sleep on the sofa a few steps away from the front door so she could make it to the taxi that would deposit her at her office each morning. She would inquire of the driver to stop on the way domestic to pick up a enormous takeaway and order more food to be delivered in the evening. She was in her 20s, and weighed 40 stone and was a virtual recluse.
They were dark days,rooted in an discouraged past. Chisholm ate and ate to make herself unattractive to men. She had hurry away from domestic with a stranger at the age of 16, lived with him in Oxford briefly and, and when they broke up,was abused for three months by the landlord who rented her a room. Lost and lonely, she had a short relationship with another man and became pregnant when she was 17. She returned to her domestic town of Bedlington in Northumberland, and where she gave birth to her daughter,but having broken with her family, she lived alone with her baby.
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Source: theguardian.com