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A mum whose boyfriend beat her and forced her to run on a treadmill because he wanted her to resemble model Graceyanne Barbosa has spoken about her ordeal.

Gemma Doherty, 30, says she was forced to eat 50 cans of Tuna a week and run on a treadmill every day to meet the demands of her obsessive ex-boyfriend Mohammed Anwaar.

Vile Anwaar controlled what Gemma wore, what she ate and who she spoke to and beat her if she disobeyed him.

At one stage she was so brainwashed by him that she actually told police she enjoyed being beaten.

Anwaar was jailed yesterday for 28 months under the new offence of coercive control.

Nine of the 10 counts he admitted at Sheffield Crown Court were related to specific violent incidents.

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But the 10th was a new charge of controlling or coercive behaviour, only brought in at the end of 2015.

Gemma now feels she has got her life back and feels she has "finally been brought back into the real world".

Mum-of-two Gemma, formerly of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, said: "He would only let me eat tuna and beetroot.

"I would see my friends out and they told me to eat more.

"I was wasting away when I was forced to lose all these calories every day.

"I felt like a zombie on autopilot and was at his beck and call - whatever and whenever."

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Speaking about the demanding fitness, Gemma said: "He treated me like an animal - almost like a guinea pig in a laboratory.

"He wanted me to have abs and a huge ass - a big one like Kim Kardashian.

"His favourite model was Graceyanne Barbosa and he would make me look at her fitness routines and practise them.

"If I didn't he would beat me."

Gemma said he would force her to run for up to an hour a day to burn 500 calories and would not let her stop until she had.

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She said: "He would sit on the toilet while looking at pictures of Graceyanne and would tell me I needed to do more sit ups and do more squats.

"I told him that losing 500 calories a day on the machine would not achieve that - but he wouldn't listen.

"He would force me on the treadmill until I achieved the daily target.

"One time I had stopped because he had fallen asleep. I had got to 425 calories, he woke up and because I had stopped - he made me start again."

Gemma was separated from her friends, family and even her sons, aged eight and three, who were made to resent her.

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She also fell out with her mum over Anwaar's behaviour because she was so brainwashed she could not see how badly he was treating her.

She said: "When I told the police that I didn't mind a slap or being roughed about, the officers told me it wasn't normal.

"But I had been sucked into Mo's life of him being a king - and I thought I couldn't get out."

Gemma finally left Anwaar on March 5 this year after enduring nine months of abuse.

Jealous Anwaar was also accused of paying to have men guard her at work and forced her to wear long sleeved tops to stop other men looking at her.

Gemma took an overdose of 18 pills to try and escape the horrendous abuse he subjected her to.

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She survived - but was beaten again by Anwaar for trying to take her life.

Speaking about some of the harrowing incidents from her friend's home today, a now smiling Gemma said: "Some of the things he made me do were totally disgusting and I wouldn't like to say.

"I was forced to wear men's clothes and jumpers in summer.

"He made me get the bus so he could drive my car.

"I finally decided to leave and get out when he tried to force me to do something that I declined to do. He then beat me in every single room of the house.

"The next day I told him I was going to the shop with my son but instead I ran to a pay phone.

"Five of the phones didn't work - then a stranger found me sobbing in the middle of the street.

"She could tell what was going on from the state of my ears - they were all black and blue."

Gemma said she was happy in the first six months of her 15 month long relationship with Anwaar.

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She said: "He did treat me like a princess at the beginning - he would bring me drinks and food to work without even asking.

"But then he'd push me and push, taking a mile rather than an inch every time.

"It then started getting weird in the bedroom.

"Every day we'd have sex and afterwards he'd make me strip the bed and wouldn't let me touch anything - him, the clothes, sheets -until I got in the shower and scrubbed myself down.

"I think he took his religion to the extremes.

"He was Muslim and I think that was a big part of why he treated me like this.

"I later found out he was suppose to be getting married off to a doctor in Pakistan - but now he's in jail I feel like I've saved her life."

Speaking out to those in a similar situation to her, Gemma said: "I know that there are many others like me who were trapped and lonely.

"I urge them to tell the police as soon as possible.

"Tell someone, tell anyone - get your life back.

"People like this will worm their way into your life so you believe that this abuse is all there is - but it is not.

"Please, do something about it."

Looking to the future, Gemma said: "This has turned me off men for a long time.

"I'm happy with new my new found freedom."