Jackie Kennedy was hospitalized with an eating disorder and left fighting for her life
Jackie Kennedy battled an eating disorder that left her in hospital and fighting for her life, a new book reveals.
In ‘Don’t Ask: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan details Jackie’s many health problems, from “disordered eating” to PTSD after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy, and a string of lost pregnancies.
While married to her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, “Jackie lost 24 pounds in nine days, had panic attacks and could barely stand up,” Callahan writes, adding, “She ended up in the hospital.”
Jackie Kennedy battled an eating disorder that left her in hospital and fighting for her life, a new book reveals.
In ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’, DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan details Jackie’s many health problems, from ‘disordered eating’ to PTSD after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy, and a series of lost pregnancies.
The extreme weight loss was apparently triggered by a National Enquirer front page featuring a photo of Jackie with her stomach “looking swollen.” The headline read: ‘Is she pregnant or isn’t she pregnant?’
“Always fanatical about her weight…Jackie was on a crash starvation diet,” Callahan writes. ‘Every day she allowed herself only half a grapefruit, a little yoghurt, 60 grams of meat, an apple, 90 grams of green vegetables and a salad without dressing.’
Callahan’s new book is being published in a major series exclusively by the Mail.
