Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror. She had every reason to be proud. In the space of a year, she had lost an incredible 17 stone. Her weight dropped from 37st 1lbs to 19st 7lbs, and she slipped into a dress before gazing at her newly svelte figure. With her smokey eye makeup and black skater dress, she could have been glamming up for a night on the tiles with her girlfriends. Instead, it was Halloween, 2013, and Ava was hiding a huge secret. Born a boy named William, it was the first time she had ever dressed as a girl – and everything fell into place.
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
From a platter of finger licking chicken wings to a bowl of Chinese noodle soup, these foodie snaps are enough to make your savoury saliva glands drool .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .