Jackie Kennedy battled an eating disorder that left her in hospital and fighting for her life, a new book reveals.
In ‘Don’t Ask: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan details Jackie’s many health problems, from “disordered eating” to PTSD after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy, and a string of lost pregnancies.
While married to her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, “Jackie lost 24 pounds in nine days, had panic attacks and could barely stand up,” Callahan writes, adding, “She ended up in the hospital.”
Jackie Kennedy battled an eating disorder that left her in hospital and fighting for her life, a new book reveals.
In ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’, DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan details Jackie’s many health problems, from ‘disordered eating’ to PTSD after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy, and a series of lost pregnancies.
The extreme weight loss was apparently triggered by a National Enquirer front page featuring a photo of Jackie with her stomach “looking swollen.” The Enquirer headline read: “Is She Pregnant or Not Pregnant?”
“Always fanatical about her weight…Jackie was on a crash starvation diet,” Callahan writes. ‘Every day she allowed herself only half a grapefruit, a little yoghurt, 60 grams of meat, an apple, 90 grams of green vegetables and a salad without dressing.’
‘Don’t ask’ is being serialized exclusively by the Mail in a major series. Among Callahan’s many stunning revelations are details about Jackie’s many health problems.
In her ten-year marriage to JFK, who was serially unfaithful, Jackie suffered at least three miscarriages. She also suffered a stillbirth and her son Patrick died in 1963 at just two days old, months before JFK’s assassination.
Jackie’s pregnancy problems were, Callahan reveals, “likely caused by whatever sexually transmitted diseases – including asymptomatic chlamydia – that Jack had passed on to her.”
If left untreated or contracted repeatedly, chlamydia can cause infertility.