Incredible transformation of woman stabbed 62 times by school bully who yelled 'you're so fat you can't feel this'

28.02.2022 - 20:19 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

A woman who suffered horrendous bullying at school because of her weight has lost an astonishing 17 stone.

Clara Barrett was stabbed in the back with a compass more than 60 times by a vile bully who yelled: "I bet you're so fat you can't feel this".

Devastated Clara, from Swadlincote, Derbyshire, never reported the attack, which happened when she was 11.

She spent the rest of the day with blood dripping down her back and covered it up with a cardigan, StaffordshireLive reports.

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Clara said: "I was severely picked on at school.

"People used to pull my trousers down. One girl slapped me round the face every day for a year and I later started self-harming by cutting my wrists to make myself feel better.

"I was also stabbed in the back by a compass 62 times and spent the rest of the day with blood dripping down my back."

Even as an adult, she did not escape the bullying over her weight and was once walking down the road when a car sped by and someone in it hurled takeaway food at her.

She was hit in the face and body by noodles and sauce.

Carla said: "If you are fat you are treated like animals. It was like I wasn't human to them."

But now, aged 31, Clara has bounced back from her dreadful school days and to shed 17 stone.

She has slim down from a 34/36 dress size when she weighed 29 stone to comfortably fitting into a size-eight dress at 12.8 stone.

Carla added: "For a long time my age matched my weight, so when I was 11 I was 11 stone, but I eventually got heavier after the age of 15."

She said she "would eat 10 to 15 doughnuts a day, 300g chocolate bars in one sitting and by 2014 I was at my heaviest".

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