Following the show, she starred in her own reality series Princess Nikki, and won a National Television Award for Most Popular TV Contender.
[2] She was an in-patient for six weeks but after her release, she resumed under-eating and several months later, she was rushed to an emergency unit at Hillingdon Hospital, where she was force-fed through a nasal tube.
She was then transferred to Collingham Gardens child and family psychiatric unit in west London, where her weight was increased.
[2] For 18 months, Grahame remained at home and attended Northwood secondary school in Hillingdon, west London,[3] before she started losing weight again.
She was readmitted to Collingham Gardens, where she stayed for six months, and was then taken to Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she was placed on a psychiatric and eating disorders ward.
Shortly after, her weight drastically dropped and she fell into a coma; at one stage, her doctors predicted she was minutes from death.
[4] After this incident, Grahame was force-fed through a tube that was stitched inside her stomach but when she regained consciousness, she continuously tried to remove the feeding apparatus.
[5] Grahame was eventually admitted to Rhodes Farm, an eating disorders clinic in Mill Hill, North London, and after six months, she began showing signs of improvement.
[11][12] During her Big Brother tenure, tabloid newspapers reported Grahame had suffered from anorexia nervosa for most of her adolescence and several times had attempted suicide by taking an overdose of paracetamol.
Media criticised the programme's decision to include a contestant with prior mental health issues; experts said she should not have been allowed to take part.
Grahame was reinstated as an eligible housemate and was again given the opportunity to receive the show's £100,000 prize;[17] prompting 2,700 viewers to complain to the premium-rate telephone watchdog ICSTIS.
[18] After she was nominated for eviction by Susie Verrico, who had just moved into the house, Grahame furiously shouted in the Diary Room, “Who is she?!
[23] Host Davina McCall attempted to interview Grahame but she was reluctant to speak, saying she was scared and shocked by the booing from the crowd.
The programme followed her attempts to hold an everyday job and was inspired by her unsuccessful stint as a personal assistant in a Big Brother task.
[30] On 24 March 2007, Grahame appeared on a special "Goodies and Baddies" edition of the game show The Weakest Link.
On 10 September, Grahame became the show's runner-up, receiving a positive reaction from the audience after losing to Big Brother 2 winner Brian Dowling in the final vote.
[35] During Grahame's time in Ultimate Big Brother, she appeared to be more comfortable discussing her anorexia;[36] in particular, she conversed with Vanessa Feltz, who has also had problems with her weight.
[38] In September 2015, she collaborated with JYY London to design a range of fashion garments for petite women.
[41] On 14 April, Grahame was voted in the top two Canadian choices to become the Head of Household (HoH) for the week but she lost a competition to fellow house guests Nick & Phil Paquette.
As a result of her eviction, Grahame was the fifth member of the nine-person jury who decided the season's winner on Finale Night.
In April 2007, Grahame said she had undergone corrective plastic surgery on her breast implants to fix "ripples" left by the first operation.
[57] The week following Grahame's death, her GoFundMe page was re-opened to raise money for her funeral and for eating disorder charities.