"There Must Be A Way To Heal." Stephanie Rodas Suffering From Anorexic Since She Was 13 Drops To 55lbs

A woman name Stephanie Rodas, 28, has battled with anorexia since she was 13 years old. Over the course of 16 years, she has teetered on the edge of viability, at one point dropping to a life-threatening 55lbs. and despite being sent to countless clinics and hospitals by her family, she always ate just enough to be discharged and relapse.

Now seven months after near fatal encounter will some painkillers, the new Yorker is appearing on syndicated daytime TV show the doctors to undergo a series of heart tests, blood tests and ultrasounds to find out how the disease had crippled her body.

In this extract, shared exclusively with daily mail online ahead of Monday's episode, Stephanie weeps as she asks the experts for help to recover from the disease which has been norm for most of her life.

"I can have as little as 100 calories a day... I will spend 10 hours exercising," she admits to hosts Nita Landry and Dr Sonia batra.

During Stephanie's childhood she was overweight, she told the hosts. but as she hit her teens, she became the target of merciless bullying.

According to Stephanie, "When I was 13 I felt very hideous. I was overweight and kids would say things like "fatso" and everyone in the lunch room would throw food at me."

Over the years, her family with whom she has always been close to started to worry about her shrinking frame. At 17 they sent her to a clinic in New Jersey. but rather then cure her, it fueled her addiction to the disease.

Eventually, at the age of 23, Stephanie tired to break herself out of it. she tried yoga, meeting with nutritionists and holistic medics, but she couldn't do it.