Mikyla Dodd
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Mikyla Dodd (born 1978) is an English actress and writer, who is most known for playing the role of Chloe Bruce in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 until 2004. She is also an activist, raising awareness about eating disorders.
Early life
Dodd was born in 1978 in Blackburn in Lancashire,[1] and attended Billinge High School.[2]
Television career
Dodd played the character Chloe Bruce in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 until 2004. She also performed in Hollyoaks: Breaking Boundaries, the show's first late night edition, in 2000 and in Hollyoaks: Indecent Behaviour in 2001. She was the first plus-size cast member to appear on the show.[1]
In 2006, she appeared in the ITV Reality TV show Celebrity Fit Club.[3][4][5]
Memoir and activism
On 28 June 2007, Dodd's memoir The Fat Girl from Hollyoaks, a record of her weight problems as a teenager and life as an actress in a British television soap opera, was published by Hodder & Stoughton.[2][1] The paperback version was released under the title Playing the Fat Girl.[2]
In 2009, Dodd explored the dangers of diet pills and extreme diets in the BBC Three documentary When Diets Go Wrong.[6][4]
In 2024, Dodd featured in the documentary A Day With An Eating Disorder, produced by Lynn Crilly, to raise awareness of eating disorders.[7] During Eating Disorders Awareness Week in 2025, she said that:[7]
She has also spoken about body image and the media industry on radio broadcasts.[8]
References
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External links
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- Interview with Mikyla Dodd on the Metro website [1]