Meet The Woman Who Eats 3,000 Yorkshire Puddings A Year

Kirsty-Leigh Ord will only eat Aunt Bessie’s food (Caters)

As any Brit will tell you, roast spuds and Yorkshire puddings are crucial part of our diet.

But for one young mum, it goes beyond a love of Sunday dinners around the family table.

Kirsty-Leigh Ord claims to only eat food by Aunt Bessie’s – and goes through more than 3,000 of their Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes a year.

But the 23-year-old says the obsession is in fact down to a bizarre eating disorder.

She has a phobia of most foods – including fruit, vegetables and meat – and regularly eats an entire packet of Yorkshire puddings with tomato ketchup in one sitting.

The mum, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, said: “I’ve always suffered with my diet. But it’s gotten more extreme over the years so now I pretty much only eat Yorkshire puddings. I absolutely love them although I don’t want to get fat, so some nights I won’t have anything at all.

While Kirsty-Leigh admits she has never had a ‘proper’ diet, it’s not always been Yorkies that she’s obsessed with.

"When I went to school it was OK because I could take packed lunches, but I had the same thing every day – white Warburton’s bread with Walkers Worcester Sauce crisps,” she said.

Kirsty-Leigh Ord with her son, Tyler (Caters)

But, with her son, Tyler, increasingly influenced by her strange eating habits, she decided to look up her symptoms online and discovered a condition called ‘Selective Eating Disorder’.

She has now has finally sought help.

"All of the symptoms matched what I’d been going through – the fear of different textures and the inability to eat certain things even when I was starving,” she said.

"I had hypnotherapy last month with a specialist in London. I was so nervous about the session, but it’s already changed my life. It got rid of all my fear and negativity about food.

“I tried a Burger King on my way home – I didn’t really like the taste, but I could physically eat it which was a huge improvement.

“Even though I love Aunt Bessie’s, I know it’s not a sustainable diet.”