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I had a mental breakdown - here's how burleque helped. Sapphira FEATURE

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‘Sexual shame destroyed my mental health – here’s how burlesque helped’

Priscilla Tonka was raised in a religious cult and grew up filled with with sexual shame which eventually triggered a mental breakdown. But burlesque helped conquer her demons


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12 things this model wants you to know about the dark side of fashion

Leanne Maskell became a top fashion model at just 13.  But alongside the glamour, she was exposed to financial, emotional and sexual exploitation, she reveals in her new book The Model Manifesto


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‘I’ve had severe eczema since I was six – this helped’

Camille Knowles conquered her lifelong battle with severe eczema through simple lifestyle changes and mind hacks


I found out I was HIV positive when pregnant

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‘I found out I was HIV positive while I was pregnant’

As a third man 'cured' of HIV after stem cell treatment, Healthista TV talks to Florence Odabeyi, who contracted the virus from her first sexual partner


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‘Both my parents have tinnitus’

Tinnitus affects some six million Brits – but what’s it really like? Reporter Ellen Dowd knows a bit about that – both her dad and stepmother have it


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This is what it’s like to go through gender re-assignment

New legal battle ensues as transgender man wants to be father on child's birth certificate. Fertility laws could be called in to question. Kirone McCaffrey underwent a series of gender re-assignment surgeries between 2012 and 2015. He talks exclusively to Healthista