Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox on how MasterChef success allowed her to put disordered eating issues to 'back of my head'
The TelegraphIt is little over a month since the latest Celebrity MasterChef final aired and winner Kadeena Cox is rapidly finding out the danger of prime-time television fame. “So many people just recognise me for MasterChef and I’m like, ‘Really?’ ” she says, her light-hearted tone betraying a lack of any real irritation. “I worked so hard for my Paralympic medals!” Cox, a four-time Paralympic champion, is no stranger to the celebrity television circuit, but winning one of the BBC’s flagship shows has elevated her status in a way the double gold she won in Tokyo this summer never could. It was in an exclusive Telegraph Women’s Sport interview in 2019 that Cox, 30, first opened up about her eating disorder, admitting that “I don’t remember what normal eating is”.
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