Heartbroken Jack Fincham reveals cruel ‘loved one' branded him ‘a fat 33 year old loser' as he makes boxing comeback
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JACK Fincham has revealed a cruel 'loved one' once branded him a 'fat 33-year-old loser' as he makes his boxing career comeback.
Love Island legend Jack, 34, has battled a number of crippling personal issues in recent years, having opened up about living with bulimia for two decades as well as his addictions to drugs, alcohol and gambling.
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Jack has shared the cruel words he was subjected to by a 'loved one'
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The Love Island legend recently confessed he's been living with bulimia for two decades
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He's now working hard to relaunch his boxing career
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Despite the hurdles, he's been working hard to relaunch his boxing career and recently revealed he'd signed a new contract with a sports management company.
Now Jack has shared the heartbreaking reason behind his determination to turn his life around.
Writing on Instagram, he said: 'I got called a fat 33 year old loser, a s*** boxer and everybody knows I'm s***.
'Imagine that from a 'loved one'. Only makes me have more heart and determination.
'I'll never stop training as hard as I can and I will reach my goal of southern area champion in professional boxing.'
Jack added: 'Hurt my feelings but [I'm] using that as fuel. The backing I have, I can't lose now. My trainers believe in me so I believe in myself. Sticks and stones.'
Opening up about his long battle with bulimia recently, Jack told how he'd go days without eating and, at one point, weighed just over eight stone.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, he said: 'I have been a bulimic for 19 years, bingeing on food and then being sick.
'There have been days when I have ordered a McDonald's breakfast on Uber Eats, then gone to the Co-op and bought 12 bags of salt- and-vinegar McCoy's crisps, then had bags and bags of fizzy belt sweets.
'I have had two large Domino's pizzas with all the sides. It makes me feel ashamed.
Jack Fincham reveals been secretly battling bulimia for 20 years
"There have been so many times that I have gone to the garage and got the same thing — a Ginsters Cornish pasty, one of their peppered steak slices, a sausage roll, bags of sweets and more McCoy's.
'I'd eat it all, then go to the downstairs toilet at my mum's — because nobody could hear me, as it was in the hall, next to the front door. I know it's gross, but for years I didn't actually think I had a problem.'
He added: "I'd go three days with hardly any food and was so starving, my mum asked my boxing club if I could eat.
'They told her I could have a jacket potato with beans. I weighed just 52kg."
Jack won Love Island in 2018 with ex-girlfriend Dani Dyer. The couple split just nine months later.
Since then Jack has been in an on/off relationship with former Towie star Chloe Brockett, with him confirming last month they'd split for the eighth time.
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Jack won Love Island with ex-girlfriend Dani Dyer in 2018
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