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Twins attend fat camp after internet bullying
A PAIR of twins from Gerrards Cross were forced to attend a "fat camp" after becoming the victims of cyber-bullying.
Grace and Kate Jarman, 16, had their pages on social networking site Facebook flooded with abusive messages mocking their size and also dubbing them lazy and miserable.
The girls were so upset with the abuse that they decided to enlist in a fat camp after seeing one advertised on television.
Before joining the camp, the girls, who both go to the Chalfonts Community College, weighed around 12 stone, but after the four week programme lost a stone and a half between them.
Grace said: "The comments were really bad, and we hated seeing them on Facebook. We couldn't understand why the boys who put them on there were saying those things, because we had never done anything to them.
"When we saw the thing on TV about the fat camp, we decided to enlist. It was really intense and we had to get up every day at 6am and exercise, but it was worth it.
"In many ways it wasn't enjoyable at all, but it is great to have done it and to have lost some weight, because it means that the bullies can't say things about us any more."
The girls now walk three miles to school and back every day and go to the gym, as well as going for walks with their family at the weekend.
The twins are now being used by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to launch their Food4Thought campaign, aimed at getting children to be more active as part of a battle against childhood obesity.
Grace added; "The BHF heard about our story and liked that we had done something positive about our weight, so they asked us to get involved in their campaign.
"The whole thing has been a really good experience, and it's good that something positive has come out of something that was so upsetting."
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