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.
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
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THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .