Gary Barlow shares never-before-seen photos of him at 17st throughout bulimia battle

Warning: This text comprises dialogue of consuming issues which some readers might discover distressing

Gary Barlow has shared beforehand unseen photos of himself from a time when he weighed 17 stone and was in a battle with the consuming dysfunction bulimia.

Netflix has a brand new documentary referred to as Take That – you get no prizes for guessing which band it is about – which makes use of archive footage to return to the story of the boy band and go over the story individuals keep in mind.

Operating from when the band first shaped via to when the cracks began displaying and into the drama of them breaking apart, Take That appears on the rising solo star of Robbie Williams and the unsuccessful makes an attempt of his bandmates, together with Barlow, to go it alone for which he was subjected to a lot mockery.

Barlow stated he ‘noticed all of it, and watched all of it’, and Take That delves right into a 13 month interval the place he did not go away the home and began consuming as he developed bulimia.

Within the documentary, Barlow stated he could not stroll down a road ‘with out somebody shouting one thing about Robbie to me’, and described it as ‘excruciating’.

“It was simply so excruciating,” he added. “You simply needed to crawl right into a gap.”

The singer and songwriter stated he began consuming and the extra weight he gained the much less he was recognised so he ‘killed the pop star’.

He stated: “There was a interval of about 13 months once I didn’t go away the home as soon as.

“And I additionally began to place weight on. And the extra weight I placed on the much less individuals would recognise me.

“I assumed ‘that is good, that is what I’ve been ready for, dwelling a standard life’. So I went on a mission.

“If the meals handed me, I’d simply eat it… and I killed the pop star.”

Barlow admitted he would really feel terrible about consuming a lot that he would ‘go off to a darkish nook of the home and simply throw up’ and located that he stored doing it.

In 2003, his weight reached 17 stone and he determined he wanted to alter his methods, however stated it took him ‘years to get again to who I needed to be’.

Prior to now, Barlow has spoken about his ideas on altering issues up, saying he resolved to show issues round.

“2003 – it was the day once I simply went, ‘No, I am not having this anymore, I’ll change. I need to change and I am decided that this isn’t who I’ve change into’.”

After all, since then Take That reformed, loved a renewed interval of success, and even briefly teamed up with Robbie Williams once more.

And maybe most significantly, they’ve cemented their place as some of the fashionable and recognisable boy bands of all time.

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