A young ambassador for eating disorders who dedicated her life to helping others fight the disease has  died of heart failure after a 12-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Jay Taylor, 24, died suddenly by her mother's side on Monday at home in Walker, Newcastle. She had battled with the eating disorder for half her life, developing a serious problem with food when she was just 11 years old. Facebook tributes have flooded in from other sufferers of eating disorders keen to pay their respects to the 'bright' young 'mentor' and promising poet, who was chosen as an ambassador for the Eating  Disorder Association when she was 18.
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Jay Taylor, 24, died at home in Walker, Newcastle, on Monday
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Her mother Tracey was with her when she died
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Facebook tributes have flooded her page from other sufferers of disorders
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Jay developed anorexia nervosa when she was 11 years old
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She was made an ambassador for Eating Disorder Association aged 18
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