‘Jordan helped diagnose
my son’s brain tumour’
When doctors couldn’t come up with an answer,
Victoria Yearwood turned to a person who could…
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the start that there and TV star Katie Price.
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weighed 4st – nearly double
the average toddler’s size.
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5st. There was nothing
wrong with him mentally,
but physically he was
enormous. Hospital tests
came back blank and I was
told Kai was fat because I
was feeding him too much.
It was humiliating and
depressing. I knew my
son was eating normally.
One week I fed him
nothing but fruit – but
he still put on 2lb. The
dietician we were referred
Victoria kisses Kai.
to didn’t help and no one
‘I have to face the at Kai’s nursery offered us
possibility that he
any advice. I felt as if I
might not make it…’
was banging my head
against a brick wall.
I got increasingly upset.
No matter what I did, Kai
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put on weight. Desperate
baby Kai with
for answers, I got in
brother Emerson
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