Jackie Kennedy was hospitalized with an eating disorder and left fighting for her life

Jackie Kennedy battled an consuming dysfunction that left her hospitalized and preventing for her life, a brand new e book reveals.

In ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Girls They Destroyed’, DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan particulars Jackie’s many well being battles from ‘disordered consuming’ to PTSD after her husband President John F Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, and a collection of misplaced pregnancies.

Whereas married to her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, Jackie ‘misplaced 24 kilos in 9 days, began having panic assaults and will barely get up,’ Callahan writes, including: ‘She wound up within the hospital.’

The acute weight-loss was apparently prompted by a Nationwide Enquirer entrance web page that includes an image of Jackie together with her stomach ‘trying distended’. The Enquirer headline learn: ‘Is she or is not she anticipating?’

 ‘All the time fanatical about her weight… Jackie went on a crash hunger eating regimen,’ Callahan writes. ‘Every day, she allowed herself simply half a grapefruit, slightly yogurt, 2½ ounces of meat, one apple, 3½ ounces of inexperienced greens, and a salad with out dressing.’

‘Ask Not’ is being completely serialized by the Mail in a serious collection. Amongst Callahan’s many gorgeous revelations are particulars of Jackie’s personal well being issues.

In her ten years of marriage to JFK, who was serially untrue, Jackie had a number of miscarriages. She additionally suffered a third-trimester stillbirth and her son Patrick died at simply two days outdated in 1963, months earlier than JFK’s assassination in Dallas. 

Jackie’s being pregnant troubles had been, Callahan reveals, ‘seemingly brought on by all of the sexually transmitted illnesses — asymptomatic chlamydia amongst them — that Jack had handed to her.’

Left untreated or contracted recurrently, chlamydia could cause infertility.

Jackie additionally suffered with intense despair. However ‘Jack both could not see it – or did not care,’ Callahan writes. ‘As a substitute, he secretly packed off his spouse to a psychological hospital for the elite, Valleyhead in Massachusetts, the place she had three rounds of electroshock remedy in a single week.’

Years after JFK’s dying, Jackie was additionally identified with PTSD. ‘Her trauma not solely stemmed from that day in Dallas, but in addition from her marriage to Jack — the fixed infidelities,’ Callahan writes.

The assassination additionally had a psychical impression on Jackie. Even years later, she ‘suffered excruciating, pulsating ache in her neck’, Callahan writes. Jackie believed this was as a result of ‘everlasting nerve harm from clutching [JFK’s] shattered head in her lap’ after he was shot.