TV shows, such as starring as Yasmin in Waterloo Road , or Caz in Coronation Street. The star also featured as PC Mel Ryder in the long-running programme The Bill for two years from 2008. The actress is not the only successful star in her family, but she is in fact related to a Grammy award-winning singer.
ITV Coronation Street Jenny Connor actress' family life and bulimia battle
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READ MORE: Liverpool doctor struck off after 27 years for faking his CV in 'elaborate scam' The actress first joined the Corrie cast in 1986 at the age of 16 as Jenny Bradley - the daughter of villain Alan Bradley who was taken in by mother figure Rita Fairclough while her father worked away, the Manchester Evening News reports. But after five years, Sally quit the show in pursuit of other roles, returning briefly in 1993, before making a huge comeback in 2015 after meeting Kevin Webster through online dating. The 51-year-old has previously opened up about the toll her acting career had on her childhood, with her struggling to fit in at school.
She had to balance the pressures of fame with the usual insecurities of being a teenage girl. And nasty comments from those in showbiz even caused her to develop an eating disorder. In a previous interview with the Daily Mirror ahead of her return to the cobbles, she admitted that a remark from a TV critic about how she looked led to a battle with bulimia.
It was an eight-month ordeal that Sally had kept quiet for 20 years. She said: “When I was in Corrie first time around there was no real celebrity culture. No Twitter, Facebook.
“In those days, before social media, people were much more focused on the TV critics – who were sort of celebrities themselves. "She recalled a critic made a damaging comment after Jenny got engaged to a French boy, which said 'what would a handsome Frenchman boy like Patric see in a little pudding like Jenny Bradley?'She said: “For me, that was then eight months of active bulimia and then recovery. "Sally Ann, who married senior barrister Nick Rhodes in 1999, also revealed that her screen commitment made it difficult to strike up romantic
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