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Nicola Rachele-Beth Grahame (born April 28, 1982) from Watford, Hertfordshire rose to fame in the UK when she was chosen to be a housemate on Big Brother 7 in 2006. A former model and promotions girl, Grahame has become renowned for throwing temper tantrums — behaviour that divided viewer opinion during her time on Big Brother and subsequently led to her being given her own reality television show entitled Princess Nikki.

Grahame spent most of her adolescence in psychiatric hospitals, battling with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, a condition that left her comatose and near death at the age of 12. The Big Brother production company, Endemol, was criticised for including her in the programme and endangering her fragile mental state in favour of viewing figures.

Early life

Nikki Grahame and her older sister Natalie were born to parents Susan and David Grahame. Grahame describes her childhood as the "happiest ever", however a series of upsets followed, when at the age of eight, her parents divorced and her grandfather, who she was extremely close to, died from cancer. Grahame was raised by her mother, Susan, after her parents' separation. Grahame — who has been described as a "daddy's girl" — was really hurt by the split. During this time Grahame attended gymnastics classes and began showing early symptoms of the eating disorder anorexia — feeling inadequate and fat in her leotard. She began cutting out food as a means of gaining control and keeping her mother close to her.

Anorexia nervosa

Grahame's disorder continued to escalate until her parents had her admitted to the children’s eating disorders unit at the Maudsley psychiatric hospital in London. She was kept in for six weeks and then released, however she continued to starve herself and several months later she was rushed to an emergency unit at Hillingdon Hospital, Middlesex, where she was force-fed through a nasal tube. She was then transferred to Collingham Gardens child and family psychiatric unit in West London, where her weight was increased and after eight months she was allowed home. For 18 months Grahame remained at home and attended Northwood secondary school in Hillingdon, Middlesex, before her weight started dropping once again. She was readmitted to Collingham Gardens for six months and then to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where she was placed on a psychiatric and eating disorders ward.

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