Therapist reveals she lived as a horse until she was 13
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A 47-year-old woman has revealed she lived as a horse every day for seven years until she was a teenager.
Kate Havord, an art therapist from Chippenham, Wiltshire, has said that she galloped on all fours, wore a bridle and even ate grass from the ages of six to 13.
Kate, whose father is the late television actor Conrad Phillips, said she grew up 'roaming free' on a farm in Scotland, and would try to eat her meals like a horse when her parents weren't looking.
She added that a 'horse spirit' first entered her when she won an all fours running race at school and eventually had 32 distinct horse personalities she could call upon at any given moment.
'During the school race when I started to gallop I remember thinking to myself 'this is fantastic!'.
'It was like the spirit of the horse entered me - I felt so free and powerful and this euphoria was intensified by the fact that I won the race by a long shot.
'From that moment on there was always more of a pull to get down on all fours and gallop that to walk along on two legs - I would pretend to be a horse at every opportunity.
'I remember going to my mum and dad's vegetable patch and nibbling on broccoli flowers, a fennel bush or even a bit of grass - although that was a bit of a struggle to eat.'
But her days as a horse were eventually brought to a halt by her father.
She said: 'I was out trotting on my neighbour's drive when my dad came out and said to me in his Shakespearean actor's voice 'there comes a time, my darling, when every young lady has to put away her hooves.
'It was then I remember that I suddenly felt a switch go off. That was a really strange moment. That day my childhood was over - I stopped doing it after that.'
