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.
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TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
15-foot-long great white sharks on the hunt, in False Bay, South Africa - SHOCK and awe pictures of 15-foot-long great whites on the hunt will leave you stunned .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .