Pick Me Up!

Finding perfection

When I was just 10 years old, I weighed 10st.

Growing up, I was constantly overweight.

My size fluctuated, but I always had issues around food.

Everything spiralled out of control after I lost my mum to cancer, and older brother Mark died.

I was 37-weeks pregnant when I had to identify his body.

There was so much grief and loss in my life, that in just under two years, I had put on over 10 stone in weight.

Still, I didn’t let anything stop me from being a good wife to my husband Chris, then 28, and a good mum to my three

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