Racing driver David Coulthard has revealed how he suffered from an eating disorder as a teenager.

The Formula 1 star developed bulimia as he battled to keep his weight down for racing.

The Scot was nearly 6ft tall but weighed just nine stone and was determined not to get any heavier.

He worked out regularly and controlled his diet obsessively.

He said in his autobiography: "I stopped eating fattening food and, before I knew what had happened, I was bulimic.

"In my mind the only way I could keep my weight down was by making myself vomit.

"At first I was just very, very lean. I became skin and bone, but I weighed myself every morning, noon and night - in the evening if I was half a pound heavier, I'd get in the pool and swim."

Coulthard, 36, from Kirkcudbrightshire, admitted that his behaviour could be viewed as obsessive.

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SOURCE: Mental Health Foundation