[post_page_title]Growing up[/post_page_title]
From an early age, Rachael had always been a little bigger than most. She has since noted that she was “chubby” and her full-time working parents normally just allowed her to eat what she wanted when they were both at work. Because of this, she piled on the pounds – but things went from bad to worse when her mother was diagnosed with systemic mastocytosis.
Her health began to deteriorate, and she sadly passed away when Rachael was just 7 years old. She had lost her mother and her best friend at once. Unfortunately, this was the catalyst for many of the difficult things that Rachael would later face.