A woman with a severe food phobia hasn't eaten a vegetable for 22 years - and even turned down £1,000 to eat a single pea.
Summer Monro has lived on a diet of chicken nuggets, chips and crisps for the last two decades due to a rare disorder.
The 25-year-old from Cambridge has avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) which she believes was triggered when she was forced to eat mashed potato at the age of three.
She claims even looking at a piece of fruit or veg will cause her to gag - and even hypnotherapy hasn't helped.
Summer said: "All I eat is Birds Eye chicken nuggets or crisps. My weight fluctuates with what I eat.
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"I don't eat fruit or vegetables. I can't remember the last time I did, I'd say it was when I was about three.
"I have tried to try fruit and veg, I tried to eat some apple but I physically can't. It's not that I don't want to try.
"It just makes me feel sick, there's a part of my brain that physically won't let me do it."
She added her grandad once offered her £1,000 if she would try a garden pea, but she couldn't do it.
On a typical day, Summer will skip breakfast before having a packet of Walkers crisps for lunch and six or eight Bird's Eye chicken nuggets for dinner.
She lives with her partner Dean McKnight, 26, who makes separate meals to his girlfriend every day.
The project coordinator has tried therapy an hypnotherapy to cure her ARFID, but claims nothing has worked so far.
She said: "I'm really bored, I don't get excited to eat. It's worse at lunchtime when people are eating sandwiches and I have a packet of crisps.
"I just can't see myself changing. I like the smell of food but if I try to eat it, it makes me physically sick.
"It puts a lot of pressure on me. My heart tells me I want to eat it but my brain says no. As soon as it touches my lips, I can't do it."
Summer recalls being a good eater until she turned three years old and was forced to eat mashed potato, something she couldn't stand.
She said: "That's where it all started. The things I eat now are crispy or crunchy.
"I can only eat thin fries and they have to be really crispy. Even when I cook chicken nuggets, I have to make them crispy."
Despite her extremely restrictive diet, Summer insists she's completely healthy and doesn't need any vitamins or health supplements.
However, her food staples were thrown into jeopardy last year when she found a vein in one of her chicken nuggets - and she stopped eating them for three months.
She says that, during this time, she was only eating crisps and averaged a dangerously low 100 calories per day.
Summer said: "A lot of people say they're surprised that I'm never ill. I'm also a very upbeat, happy person and people don't understand how I've got so much energy.
"It doesn't affect me physically but it does mentally. I don't feel lethargic or anything and I've had blood tests but they're all fine.
"Doctors don't really understand the condition. When I go to the doctors, they say I'm fine because I'm getting protein from the chicken and I'm not overweight or underweight."
When she tried different kinds of therapy, Summer said a woman came shopping with her and talked through different foods with her.
"It's definitely something to do with the texture. The things I do eat are crispy, which is the opposite to mashed potato," she said.
If she ever goes on date nights with Dean, she has to stick to a bowl of crispy french fries - but Summer says Dean is very supportive of her condition.
Summer said: "My partner takes it really well. When we first met, I didn't tell him about ARFID and we were walking around town looking for a restaurant and I ended up having to tell him because I kept saying no.
"When his parents visit, they make all these amazing meals and I can't eat any of them.
"It's a struggle when we go out because we have to pick certain places.
"The most recent place we went to was Zizzis and I had some fries. We go to the local pub and I have some chicken nuggets."
But if her loved ones choose restaurants with nothing suitable on the menu, Summer often just goes without.
She said: "It affects me mentally especially when I go to restaurants and I sit with nothing.
"We went out for my sister's birthday and I sat and didn't eat and it made me feel crap."
