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Vanessa Feltz branded ‘disgustingly fat’ by husband who told her ‘lose weight or lose me’

Vanessa Feltz's marriage was hunky-dory – or so she thought. Then her husband called her fat and challenged her to lose weight.

Then, one Sunday in 1999, Vanessa – on The Chase today (February 15) – joked about being broody, as she tells it in her autobiography. She started out as a journalist for The Jewish Chronicle before pivoting to television (Credit: YouTube) When Michael Kurer told his then-wife Vanessa that he was waiting for her to get diabetes, she said she struggled to breathe properly. Vanessa reportedly ate just 300 calories per day, limiting herself to apples and hard-boiled eggs.

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