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'Baby saved me from dying': Torment of 6st bride who suffered from anorexia tells how son cured her eating disorder
* Wedding guests were shocked at Laura's 'skin and bone' frame
* Sheonly ate five green beans and one square of chocolate a day
* 'I feel like son's birth was divine intervention he's saving my life every day'

Healthy and happy: Laura Wilson and her son MatthewThe wedding guests stared in disbelief as the gaunt bride walked down the aisle weighing just six stone.
But Laura Wilson didn't care that her 'skin and bone' figure was revealed in a straplesssize four dress because she was suffering from the crippling eating disorder anorexia.
Now five years later she is healthy and puts her cure down to a new man in her life - her 14-month-old son Matthew.The boy is a medical 'miracle' says Laura, now 28, who had been told she would never be able to have children because of the damage done to her body by starving herself.
She said: ''I feel likeMatthew's birth was divine intervention. He's such a sunny, happy little boy and I adore him. My miracle baby is saving my life every day.'
Laura's is still haunted by her battle with anorexia whichbegan when she was 21 and led her to being hospitalised in a mental health unit near her home in Ballymena, County Antrim, two months after her wedding.
She told how she had become obsessed with lookingslim for her big day after her fiance Philip proposed in August, 2006.
Laura recalled: 'I survived on coffee and diet Coke and doing 700 sit-ups a day. I developed bizarre eating habits rituals,like only eating my one '"meal" at 10.30pm on the dot.
'It was always five green beans and one square of chocolate. The thrill of seeing the pounds come off was like nothing else.'
Her problems withanorexia finally reached crisis point for her family when she returned from honeymoon in Phuket, Thailand, in November, 2007, weighing just five stone.

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